View looking NE along entrance channel of numbers 1 and 2 docks with W pier of wave basin on right and dock gate on left
SC 733341
Description View looking NE along entrance channel of numbers 1 and 2 docks with W pier of wave basin on right and dock gate on left
Date 23/6/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733341
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Methil Harbour (Methil Docks), Fife Methil was developed as a port from 1887 when a small wet dock was built for R Erskine Wemyss. Between 1894 and 1913 it was greatly enlarged by the North British Railway to become Fife's leading coal-exporting port. It was served by two North British Railway branches and by the Wemyss Private Railway. This shows the timber-piled pier which separates the channel leading to numbers 1 and 2 docks, on the left, and that to number 3 dock, on the right. To the right of the pier is the south east breakwater, part of the works to create number 3 dock, built between 1907 and 1913. The Methil Docks and associated collieries had until the 1960s a concentration of railway lines unmatched in Scotland. The closure of the last large collieries in this part of Fife led to the end of coal shipments from Methil in 1970. The dock remains open for general cargo traffic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/24/3
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