Kincardine Power Station
Location type
WorksName and dates
Kincardine Power Station (1958-1997)Station code: National Rail
Served by the Kincardine Power Station (British Railways).
Description
This was a coal burning power station which was railway served.
Coal from Dollar Mine was brought to the power station, the trains running round in Alloa Marshalling Yard.
The power station saw little use in the late 1980s and 1990s except a brief use of coal imported via Rothesay Dock in Clydebank. It was demolished in 2001.
There was a large yard here, approached from the east.
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Power stationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
09/09/2023
| Nearby stations Kincardine Kilbagie Clackmannan and Kennet Forest Mill Clackmannan Road Bogside Fife Airth South Alloa Alloa Ferry Grangemouth Alloa Culross [2nd] Alloa [1st] Throsk Culross [1st] | Kincardine Ground Frame Kincardine Shipyard Kincardine Bridge Kilbagie Papermill Longannet West Arrival Longannet Bunkers Longannet Mine Longannet East Arrival Longannet West Departure Brucefield Colliery Brucefield Colliery Signal Box Tourist/other Kincardine Pier Moor Loch Airth Castle Longannet MOD |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /05/1955 | Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) New lines laid into Kincardine Power Station yard site. A pair of reception loop sidings was laid north of Kincardine, which could be approached from either direction and gave access to the power stations considerable yard. Between south and north sidings were two wagon tippler filler pit sidings and three non-tippler filler pit sidings, accessed via a headshunt to the west. Both south and north groups had eight looped sidings and a broken wagon siding. |
| /05/1955 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station construction begins. |
| / /1958 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station brought partly into use. |
| / /1959 | National Coal Board Bogside Mine opened, to serve the Kincardine Power Station. |
| /04/1960 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station in use, although not fully completed (north yard sidings still being laid in). |
| /06/1960 | National Coal Board Dollar Mine Pits Nos 4 and 5 opened, to mostly serve the Kincardine Power station. |
| 12/10/1960 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Main building by Redpath Brown. Boilers by John Brown Land Boilers Ltd. 760 MW. Railway yard laid out on north side of site. Coal stockyard in north west of site, with switchgear yard to its south east and power station itself to south east again. Conveyors ran along south side of the sidings from the stockyard to the north side of the power station. Two 400ft chimneys. Oil depot south east of power station building. Pier in far south east of site. Ash was piped to settling ponds to the east of Longannet Point. |
| /02/1961 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station north yard sidings laid in. |
| / /1963 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station completed. |
| / /1988 | Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) Single track line reinstated from Yoker Depot to the Rothesay Dock for imported coal trains from here to Kincardine Power Station (Kincardine Line). The former Rothesay dock yard was ripped up and replaced with a loop. |
| / /1988 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Kincardine Power Station sidings in northern yard disconnected at both ends. Southern sidings used for coal loading for Longannet Power Station. |
| / /1989 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Using track recovered from Kincardine Power Station the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway was extended 3.5 miles from Kinneil to Birkhill (with support from Falkirk District Council, Central Regional Council and the Scottish Tourist Board). |
| / /1991 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Scottish Power South of Scotland Electricity Board wound up by privatisation and Scottish Power takes over assets. (eg Kincardine Power Station, Longannet Power Station.) |
| / /1995 | Scottish Power Kincardine Power Station sidings in southern yard taken out, leaving a single yard siding along the south side. Sidings remain under tipplers, filler pits, weighbridge and at the two road locomotive shed. |
| / /1997 | Scottish Power Kincardine Power Station officially closed. |
| /04/1997 | Kincardine Line (North British Railway) Longannet Power Station to Kincardine Power Station re-opened to freight. This was to allow opencast coal, brought to Kincardine by road, to be carried to Longannet power station. |
| /05/1997 | Scottish Power New power station proposed on the site of the closed Kincardine Power Station. The power station to be supplied with coal from Longannet Mine. |
| 15/05/1997 | Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) Coal loading at Kincardine Power Station's yard for Longannet Power Station begins. Coal was brought in by road to Kincardine until at least 2000. |
| 23/06/1998 | Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) Derailment at Kincardine Power Station. |
| / /2000 | Scottish Power Kincardine Power Station demolished. |
| / /2006 | Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) Kincardine Power Station Loop laid in Kincardine Power Station in connection with line re-instatement. |
News items
| 31/03/2023 | Kincardine: Quarry firm plans to send road materials by rail [Dunfermline Press] |
