Lathalmond Railway Museum
Location type
Names and dates
RNSD Lathalmond (1941-1971)Lathalmond Railway Museum (1997-)
Opened on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.
Description
This was a rail served Royal Naval Stores Depot established in the Second World War.
The railway closed in 1971, being cut back to Townhill Power Station. The depot closed in 1993.
It became the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum (in 1995) which includes on its site Shed 47 (from 1997), a short standard gauge line. Tracklaying of a narrow gauge line, the West of Fife Munitions Railway, began on 18 June 2016 and locomotives from the Auchencorth Peat Moss Railway transferred to the site.
The site is now the base of Shed 47 - Lathalmond Railway Museum .
Local
The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum
Tags
Royal Naval Stores Depot preservation heritageExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
03/10/2023
| Nearby stations Dunfermline Queen Margaret Dunfermline Upper Halbeath Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline City Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd] Dunfermline [1st] Crossgates (Fife) Kelty Blairadam Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Oakley (Fife) Rosyth Cairneyhill | Lathalmond Lime Works Roscobie Lime Works Gask Junction Gask Siding Gask Colliery Elgin and Wallsend Colliery Elgin Pit Derby Mine No 2 Quarries Quarries Derby Pit Elgin and Wallsend Colliery Wallsend Pits Nos 2 and 3 Elgin Colliery Arthur Pit Colton Pit No 2 Lassodie Colliery Tourist/other Bowershall Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1971 | West of Fife Railway and Harbour RNSD Lathalmond closed. |
| 05/07/1971 | West of Fife Mineral Railway RNSD Lathalmond to Gask Junction to Lilliehill Junction (excluded) closed. |
| 18/06/2016 | West of Fife Munitions Railway Construction of this 2 foot gauge railway begins at the former RNSD Lathalmond formerly served by the West of Fife Mineral Railway. |
News items
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series) |  Fife's Lost Railways |  Railways of Fife |  The Railways of Fife |
