IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Boreland Road, INVERKEITHING, KY11 1NH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Boreland Road, KY11 1NH by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (201 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Railway junction
Just south of Inverkeithing station, this disused single track line runs to Rosyth Dockyard. Viewed from the Boreland Road bridge.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
0.02 miles
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Railway junction
Just south of Inverkeithing station, this disused single track line runs to Rosyth Dockyard. Viewed from the Boreland Road bridge.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
0.02 miles
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Les sabots rouges (Pandrol clips)
Pandrol clips are used to hold rails onto concrete sleepers which make up many of today's new rail tracks.
Pandrol is a British company, established in 1937, which manufactures clips used on rail tracks. Pandrol now has manufacturing plants in 12 countries. Over 240 railway systems in 91 countries have adopted its products.
In the olden days wooden packers were used to hold the steel rails snugly into jaw points mounted on wooden sleepers. The timber would allow for a little movement and would assist fish-plates to some degree in doing their job to allow expansion and contraction as was necessary with the steel during temperature variations. The words "saboteur" and "sabotage" are derived from "sabots" from the French "wooden shoes" (like clogs). When it was required to disrupt traffic on the railways one would knock the wooden blocks out which held the rails in place, an act of terrorism which, if the train driver didn't notice, would consequently result in derailment.
Paul Labiche, a French railway inspector played by Burt Lancaster, demonstrates to good effect in the 1964 film "The Train" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train when he prevents a German officer from removing a load of stolen works of art from France. The film is not all true. But why ruin a good story and great movie with fact?
a photo showing old track type with sabots used to hold rails in place http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/514092
Image: © Simon Johnston
Taken: 25 Nov 2007
0.03 miles
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Rosyth Docks railway line
The disused line branches off the East Coast Main Line just south of Inverkeithing station.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 4 Jun 2016
0.03 miles
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Inverkeithing railway station sign
At Boreland Road.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
0.03 miles
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Inverkeithing railway station sign
At Boreland Road. The station is in the background.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
0.03 miles
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Pillar box on Church Street
A monarch-less box near Boreland Road.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
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Inverkeithing
The east end of the town, viewed from Church Street.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
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Inverkeithing railway station
The points at the south end of the station. The line to the left leads to HM Naval Base at Rosyth.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 7 Sep 2013
0.03 miles
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Boreland Road at Church Street
Church Street is in the background.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 23 Dec 2015
0.03 miles