Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Fife and Kinross Railway.This was a two platform station. There was a goods yard and locomotive shed to the south (or east) of Kinross High Street, the station was to the north (or west) of this.
The station was built on the connection between the Kinross-shire Railway and the Fife and Kinross Railway.
This was the third station to bear the name Kinross, although it was renamed Loch Leven. It replaced Kinross [2nd], a short lived terminus which was located by the locomotive shed.
It was renamed Loch Leven when the Devon Valley Railway opened and the name Kinross applied to the new junction station at Hopefield, Kinross Junction [1st].
The station closed in 1921.
The signal box was south of the station, opposite the goods yard on the west side of the line. It closed in 1957 and was replaced with a ground frame.
The line itself closed in 1970.
Nearby stations Kinross [2nd] Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Kinross Junction [1st] Kinross [1st] Kinross Junction [2nd] Milnathort Balado Blairadam Mawcarse Kelty Crook of Devon Glenfarg Lochgelly Gateside Rumbling Bridge [1st] | Kinross Shed Factory Kinross Junction Milnathort Shed Orwell Vale Mill (Woollen) Burleigh Deviation Kinnaird Colliery Benarty Signal Box Blairenbathie Colliery Tourist/other Loch Leven Pier Lochleven Castle Burleigh Castle Balado House Loch Leven [Loch] Tullibole Crossing |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
01/09/1921 | Kinross-shire Railway Loch Leven station closed |
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series) | Forgotten Railways: Scotland | Forgotten Railways: Scotland |