Seafield Ground Frame

Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Seafield Signal Box (1963-1979)
Seafield Ground Frame (1979-1989)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.

Description

This signal box opened with the junction for the new Seafield Colliery in 1963. The box was on the east side of the line. The colliery was also on the east side of the line and approached from the south.

The box was reduced to a ground frame in 1979 (opening of the Edinburgh Signalling Centre) and closed in 1989 (colliery closed 1987).

Tags

Signal box ground frame

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

Burntisland: Fife's Railway Port (Locomotion papers)

Fife's Last Days of Steam

Fife's Lost Railways

Railways of Fife

The Railways of Fife