train station – Cairneyhill People and History

Cairneyhill Train Station

FIFE NEWS. SATURDAY 7TH APRIL 1883. KIRKCALDY: THE NEW RAILWAY. Mr Dalgleish of Pitfirrane has withdrawn his opposition to the Alloa, Dunfermline, and Kirkcaldy Railway, on condition that stations be put down at Cairneyhill and Crossford. NEWMARKET JOURNAL. SATURDAY 21ST FEBRUARY 1925. NEW LNER STATION MASTERS Mr F W Cooper, station master, Monkseaton, to beContinue reading “Cairneyhill Train Station”

Cairneyhill Farming

THE SCOTSMAN, THURSDAY 24TH APRIL 1919 SCOTCH SEED POTATOES 10 tons British Queens, dressed 2 in. by 1 1/4 in., grown on high land, make a nice seed sample; also 10 tons, same dressing, from moss: all load Dollar station. Turnips – for sale, 50 tons, good sound stuff. Cairneyhill Agricultural Society Limited, 61-65 QueenContinue reading “Cairneyhill Farming”

Cairneyhill Deaths

DUNDEE EVENING TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 1905 WELL-KNOWN DUNFERMLINE MAN DEAD A well-known personage belonging to Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, name Campbell Drysdale, retired coal agent, died suddenly last night. During the day he had as usual been in Dunfermline, and on returning to his home in Cairneyhill he was seized with a shock and expired.Continue reading “Cairneyhill Deaths”

Cairneyhill Railway

Dear blog reader I hope you enjoy this ‘two for the price of one’ – 2 separate articles about the railway at Cairneyhill. Jacqueline ********************************* PERTHSHIRE ADVERTISER, MARCH 5, 1932 COUNTY NEWS OF THE WEEK: BRIDGE OF EARN RAILWAY CHANGE Owing to the retiral of Mr Alexander Young, stationmaster, at the end of the monthContinue reading “Cairneyhill Railway”

A Proposed New Railway

THE STIRLING OBSERVER, AND MIDLAND COUNTIES ADVERTISER – JUNE 3, 1881 DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE ALLOA PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY BETWEEN ALLOW AND KIRKCALDY An endeavour is presently being made to get the Caledonian Railway Company to construct a new line for passenger and goods traffic between Alloa and Kirkcaldy. Plans have been prepared of the undertaking withContinue reading “A Proposed New Railway”

Cairneyhill Valuation Roll 1940

Dear blog reader Welcome to the twelfth (and final) part in a series, a list of the people, with address and occupation where known, who were connected with Cairneyhill in 1940. (Please see a note at the end of this introduction regarding the next series particularly for my blog readers looking for their ancestors inContinue reading “Cairneyhill Valuation Roll 1940”

New Railway in 1906

EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1906 THE NEW KINCARDINE AND DUNFERMLINE RAILWAY The above sketch shows the new branch of the North British Railway which links up Kincardine-On-Forth with Dunfermline, and which will be opened for public traffic on Monday first. Yesterday the line was subjected to a Board of Trade inspection, and today,Continue reading “New Railway in 1906”