Kinross: site of former Loch Leven station, 2002
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Kinross: site of former Loch Leven station, 2002
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 27 Jun 2002
View NW from a surviving bridge, towards Kinross Junction - Milnathort - Mawcarse Junction, Bridge of Earn and Perth: ex-NBR Edinburgh/Glasgow - Forth Bridge - Dunfermline - Cowdenbeath - Perth main line! The station had been closed to passengers since 1/9/21, to goods since 29/3/65. The main line to Perth was abandoned from 5/1/70 Cowdenbeath - Kelty and Milnathort - Bridge of Earn, Kelty - Milnathort from 4/5/70. Since then Perth has had to be reached by a roundabout route via Thornton Junction (now Glenrothes), Ladyburn and Newburgh. Meanwhile the M90 motorway has been built, much of it along the course of the former main line to Perth. The motorway is not quite visible in the photograph but is just behind the houses. On the skyline are the Ochil Hills, including Sludgie Hill (1,354 ft.) and Dochrie Hill (1,194 ft.). Loch Leven itself stretches behind the camera.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.19753
Longitude
-3.424502