Old Photograph Mount Melville Scotland

Old photograph of Mount Melville train station near St Andrews, Scotland. The section of the Fife Coast Railway from Anstruther to St Andrews contained some steep gradients, the greatest of these being 1 in 50 between Mount Melville and St Andrews.

The Melville name originates from England and Scotland. The name is derived from the Scottish surname. It is also the name of a Scottish noble family. The surname though has two different origins: Scottish and Irish. In Scotland, it originally of Norman origin, derived from any of several places called Malleville in Normandy. In Ireland, the surname is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Ó Maoilmhichíl, which means " descendant of Maoilmhichil ". The Gaelic personal name Maoilmhichil means " devotee of Saint Michael.



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