Kilmany railway station served the village of

Kilmany Kilmany (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cille Mheinidh'') is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland. It is located on the A92 between Auchtermuchty and the Tay Road Bridge. In 2001 it had a population of 75. The current name of the village derives from an o ...

Fife, Scotland Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i.e ...

from 1909 to 1951 on the

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History

The station opened on 25 January 1909 by the

. The goods yard was to the north. The signal box closed in 1928 and was replaced with a ground frame which allowed access to the goods yard. The station was host to a

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camping coach Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to ...

from 1935 to 1939. At least part of the station buildings were used to provide ''camping apartment'' accommodation for holidaymakers from sometime in the 1950s until the early 1960s, there was accommodation for six people. The line and station closed to passengers on 12 February 1951. The line closed to goods traffic on 5 October 1964.

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Kilmany station on Canmore
Disused railway stations in Fife Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1909 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1951 Former North British Railway stations 1909 establishments in Scotland 1951 disestablishments in Scotland {{Fife-railstation-stub