Old Travel Blog Photograph Durham Terrace Lower Largo Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Durham Terrace by the railway line in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Fife Coast Railway was a railway line running round the southern and eastern part of Fife. It was built in stages by four railway companies: the Leven Railway opened the section from a junction at Thornton on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway main line to Leven in 1854, serving textile mills and a distillery. In 1857 the company extended eastwards to Kilconquhar; the East of Fife Railway built the line from Leven to Kilconquhar, opening in 1857; the Leven and East of Fife Railway was created in 1861 by an amalgamation of the first two companies. It opened the line to Anstruther in 1863; finally the Anstruther and St Andrews Railway completed the line from Anstruther to St Andrews in 1887. St Andrews itself had already been reached from Leuchars in 1852 by The St. Andrews Railway. As well as the textile industries, the line served fishing and agriculture, and an important passenger traffic built up. The line thrived up until 1939, but road transport took its toll on both passenger and freight business, and the importance of coal declined, and the line closed to passengers in 1965 and to goods traffic in 1966.



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