Rumbling Bridge [1st]
Location type
StationName and dates
Rumbling Bridge [1st] (1863-1868)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Devon Valley Railway.Description
This was the temporary terminus of the line from Kinross [1st] before its extension west to Dollar. The station was at surface level which would result in a very steep gradient to the west if the original proposed line was built. The North British Railway saw the line as an important through route and its engineer proposed an alteration. The line was closed west of Crook of Devon in 1868 to allow a new approach to be built to a new Rumbling Bridge [2nd] at a lower level. The new approach was in a quarter mile long cutting. A triangle of land remained in railway ownership, along with Station House.
The cutting has been filled in and landscaped.
Tags
Station terminus
| Nearby stations Rumbling Bridge [2nd] Crook of Devon Dollar Balado Kinross Junction [1st] Kinross Junction [2nd] Kinross [1st] Loch Leven Tillicoultry Kinross [2nd] Bogside Fife East Grange Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Oakley (Fife) Forest Mill | Gairney Viaduct Devonshaw Tile Works Devonshaw Siding Arndean Cutting Blairingone Colliery Blairingone Siding Dollar Mine Dollar Beg Siding Melloch Colliery Dollar Viaduct Tourist/other Church Road Crossing [Crook of Devon] Arndean House Broomhill Crossing Tullibole Crossing Dollar Glen |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
