Westfield Disposal Point
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Westfield Disposal Point (1955-2008)Opened on the Lochore Branch (North British Railway).
Description
Westfield open cast mine opened in 1955.
The disposal point was served by the North British Railway line which was built from Kelty to Kirkness Colliery and extended by the London and North Eastern Railway to Redford Junction.
On opening the site was served from both east and west. A series of looped sidings were on the north side of the existing line, to the west of these were sidings served from the west, below the loading point. Coal was sent east to Methil Power Station (opened 1965 to burn coal slurry). The line west to Kelty was closed in 1966.
The site closed in 1998. It opened again in 2008 for a final extraction of coal. For this most of the old track was lifted. Expansion of the opencast site had destroyed the approach from the east and a new alignment was needed. In its final form there was a loading pad in the looped sidings yard where coal was loaded by digger as the conveyors and loading are had been removed. A single long loop sufficed.
Tags
Sidings Opencast Loading Point
| Nearby stations Lochgelly Cardenden Kelty Leslie Blairadam Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Kinross [2nd] Loch Leven Mawcarse Kinross [1st] Kinross Junction [1st] Kinross Junction [2nd] Crossgates (Fife) | Lurgi Gas Plant Westfield Opencast Capeldrae Colliery Kirkness Colliery Lochore Siding Colliery Mary (Lochore) Colliery Glencraig Colliery Craighead Colliery Bowhill Colliery Bowhill Junction Minto Colliery Lochgelly Brickworks Lochgelly Colliery Nellie Pit Tourist/other Loch Leven [Loch] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
