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Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

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This was a rail served power station located to the north of Townhill Loch, north of Dunfermline opened in August of 1905 by the Fife Electric Power Company. The power station was a chain grate coal fired power station.

It was south of Lilliehill Junction with two sets of sidings:
- a looped siding on the east side, approached from the north (original coal fired power station)
- a single siding on the north side, approached from the west (new gas turbine power station)
both sets on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.
(To the south was the course of the former Townhill Waggonway.)

A gas turbine power station was added to the west of the original in 1963 and came into operation in 1965. By this stage the line did not extend north of Lilliehill Junction and the power station was reversed into. Diesel oil was delivered to the new power station.

The railway to the power station closed in 1976 and was cut back to near Townhill Yard in 1978.

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