View looking S across number 2 dock showing dock gate

Description View looking S across number 2 dock showing dock gate

Date 23/6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733360

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 south-west end of number 2 Dock, built between 1894 and 1900, looking south-east. In the middle of the view are the gates used to keep the level of water in the dock constant, with the channel to the open sea beyond. The building on the left is the harbour office. 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 H35/70/25/31

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733360

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap