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Invertiel Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Invertiel Junction (1896-1960)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
Opened on the Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway).

Description

This was the junction between the 1847 Edinburgh and Northern Railway and the Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway) opened in 1896. Both lines were double track although the newer line became single track as it struck off west of the junction. Approach was from the south.

The signal box was in the 'V' of the junction, in line with the main line.

The box closed in 1963. The branch had closed in 1960.

A little was west of the junction a harbour branch had been intended from the branch line. This would pass under the main line. This was abandoned during construction as the harbour site was too exposed. However, the line was later laid in as the Seafield Siding, serving a tip.

Tags

Junction

Nearby stations Kirkcaldy Kinghorn Sinclairtown [1st] Sinclairtown [2nd] Dysart Burntisland [1st] Burntisland Glenrothes with Thornton Cardenden West Wemyss Thornton Junction Thornton Junction [W&BR] Wemyss Castle Aberdour Lochgelly	Invertiel Siding Invertiel Quarry Invertiel Viaduct Kirkcaldy Bus Depot Seafield Branch Junction Windygates Clay Pit Links Brick and Tile Works Seafield Colliery Tyrie Bleach Works Seafield Harbour Abbotshall Linoleum Works Forth Works [Linoleum] Seafield Ground Frame Caledonia Works [Linoleum] Tourist/other Beveridge Park
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

03/03/1896	Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway) Line opened as a goods/mineral relief line from the coalfields to Burntisland Harbour. Opened between Invertiel Junction (just south of Kirkcaldy) and Foulford Junction (Cowdenbeath) with a goods station at Auchtertool Goods.
03/10/1960	Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway) Invertiel Junction (excluded) to Auchtertool Goods (excluded) closed. (The Cowdenbeath Colliery closed in January 1960 reducing the need for a goods/mineral line to Burntisland.)