Below is an annotated photograph showing the newer station building in the left foreground and the following buildings in the background:
1. Montrave Hall
2. Dalraven, 54 Leven Road
3. Haworth Cottage
4. Haworth
This circa 1910 view of Lundin Links Station looks across towards the east end of Leven Road (and Largo Law beyond). At the time the west part of the street, beyond Montrave Hall, had not be developed (see 1912 map below) and the area between Haworth and Aithernie had not been in-filled with houses. The golf links are in the foreground. Further below are a couple of zoomed-in views picking out further detail. Above is the original station building (on the right) erected during the Standard Life era, while 'Aithernie' (now the Old Manor Hotel) sits above the station platform, on the left. The small hut-like structure by the railway line in front of Aithernie may have been a 'tablet catching' platform. As this section of railway was single track, a system was devised whereby the driver had to be in possession of a 'tablet' before proceeding down the next section of track. Tablets were often exchanged at special wooden platforms to ensure a speedy handover from signalman to driver.
Below is an annotated photograph showing the newer station building in the left foreground and the following buildings in the background: 1. Montrave Hall 2. Dalraven, 54 Leven Road 3. Haworth Cottage 4. Haworth
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John Band
9/3/2018 11:05:47 am
The single track block signal and tablet system normally worked between signal boxes, in this case between Largo and Leven or Largo and Elie. The tablet being held in the possession of the signalman in a machine in his box before he took it out and handed to the driver, often without the train stopping. As the small timber structure is on the wrong side of the track ie awkward to access from the platform I suspect this hut housed the ground frame for changing the points which served the two sidings at Lundin Links, being situated opposite the platform to prevent public access and interference.
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jonmac
15/3/2018 10:49:31 am
Dalraven ... my grandparents owned this house from early 50s till they both passed on in mid 70s ... spent many full summer school holidays there traveling from London great times
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John Band
15/3/2018 02:29:11 pm
With regards to the 2 goods sidings at Lundin Links station (see map). It is interesting to note that due to the lack of a loop line at the station any goods trains approaching from Leven intending to drop off wagons or vans at Lundin Links would first have to travel to Largo Station and use one of the 2 loops there to allow the locomotive to run round the train and recouple prior to heading back to Lundin Links and shunt the necessary goods wagons back into the sidings there,otherwise the locomotive would be trapped in the sidings against the buffers.
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Jerzy Morkis
2/4/2018 05:14:42 am
Can anyone tellme where 'Railway Cottage' in Lower Largo would have been? Home of fisherman Peter Wishart.
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