View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of down platform building

Description View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of down platform building

Date 2/9/1965

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 664343

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lower Largo Station, Fife This station was opened in 1857 by the East of Fife Railway, which was promoted to serve the fishing and trading burghs of the East Neuk of Fife. It was a 'cheap railway' built as economically as possible in the aftermath of the 'Railway Mania' of the late 1840s. This shows the main station building from an east-bound train. The simple design of the building is characteristic of the line, and indicative of economy in construction. The guard is about to hand over a mail-bag to the stationmaster. The East of Fife Railway reached Kilconquhar in 1857, and the line was extended to Anstruther in 1863 by the Leven & East of Fife Railway. A link to St Andrews was finally completed in 1887. The whole of the East Neuk line (except the St Andrews branch from Leuchars) was closed in 1965. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/24/1

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