Old travel Blog photograph of people on the miniature railway in Craigtoun Park by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The park was originally part of the Mount Melville Estate originally called Craigtoun was one of the many Melville family estates, first acquired in 1698 for General George Melville of Strathkiness. In the late 18th Century General Robert Melville oversaw extensive landscaping of the grounds including the planting of orchards and woodland. The grounds continued in Melville family ownership until 1901 when the new owner Dr James Younger of the Younger brewing dynasty commissioned Paul W. Waterhouse to landscape the park. In 1947 Mount Melville house and gardens were acquired by Fife County Council.
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