Diesel Passenger Train To Cupar Outside Newburgh On Visit To North Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip of the sight and sounds of a diesel passenger train outside Newburgh travelling from Perth, Perthshire, to Cupar on visit to North Fife. On 1 March 1844 the title of a proposed company was shortened to The Edinburgh and Northern Railway. It was to run from Burntisland through Kirkcaldy and Markinch to Ladybank and Newburgh, on the southern shore of the Tay. At Newburgh the line was to cross the Tay and make a junction with the proposed Dundee and Perth Railway, over which trains would get access to Perth along the north shore of the Tay. Although there was enthusiasm for such a line, only about half the subscription required to present a Bill in Parliament was forthcoming, and the Chairman of the Provisional Committee proposed that a more modest scheme be drafted, and the intended presentation in the 1844 session of Parliament had to be deferred. The revised scheme was for a railway from Burntisland to Kingskettle and then through Newburgh to Perth, crossing the Tay a little above Newburgh and joining the proposed Dundee and Perth Railway; and a short branch to Kirkcaldy Harbour, and a longer one to Cupar. operation of the section from Burntisland to Cupar, and to Lindores on the Perth line, took place on 3 September 1847. On 9 December 1847 the Perth line was extended from Lindores to a temporary terminus at Glenbirnie. On 17 May 1848 the line was extended to another temporary terminus at Abernethy Road and on 25 July 1848 the final extension to Hilton Junction, where it joined with the newly opened Scottish Central Railway. Edinburgh and Northern Railway trains gained access to Perth station through Moncrieffe Tunnel over that company's lines. The Dundee line was extended from Cupar to Leuchars on 17 May 1848. In the 1960s rationalisation of the railways resulted in closure of many routes including the railway station at Newbugh. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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