Fife Coast Railway (original) (raw)

The Fife Coast Railway was a railway line running round the southern and eastern part of the county of Fife, in Scotland. 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.