Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08NE 90 094 877

(Location cited as NT 094 877). Dunfermline (Upper) Station, opened 1849 by the Stirling and Dunfermline Rly. A two-platform through station with the main offices on the down side in a two-storey rubble building, incorporating a dwellinghouse. Both platforms have steel-framed awnings and are linked by a lattice-girder footbridge.

J R Hume 1976.

Demolished April/May 1989 in advance of retail development.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), June 1989.

This intermediate station on the Dunfermline (Halbeath) - Stirling line was opened (as Dunfermline Station) by the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Rly on 13 December 1849, renamed Dunfermline Upper station on 2 June 1890 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 7 October 1968.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 November 1998.

R V J Butt 1995.