It's Thornton goods yard ,going by condition of rails and points you showed its still used in some way !! The signal (light) you climbed up is the exit signal that takes you out onto the Fife circle ( Thornton --- inverkiething ) ,30 yrs ago it was one Scotland's main goods yards wagons were loaded with coal slurry for the power stations and stone driven in by road and loaded onto wagons for track repair all over Scotland ,the yard was also used for scrapping wagons and carriages like the ones there ,the yard used to have lines and lines of carriages brought from all over uk to be scrapped ........now its just an overgrown ghost yard .........but a great video I'd go better that bro and give it 8 👍👍 keep up the good work 👍👍
if the signals are still active it serves as a clear indicator that they haven't officially the line/yard, which means Network rail have a responsibly to maintain the infrastructure on it regardless to if its being used or not which would explain why the majority of the track is not overgrown with foliage.
Thanks for this; looks like you guys had a lot of fun there. I was a Driver way back in the early 90's and used to take coal traffic in and out of the yard from Millerhill. The bothy was great there as it had comfy sofas (upstairs), useful if you had some spare time. I was there just this morning and was saddened to see it's decline and remember it when it was a vibrant DMU depot as well.
Was Thornton depot. As coal is officially dead then it has no further use. The signal is still on because it's still on the same electrical circuit as live signals in the area. Beware old seemingly dead railways can come back to life at unexpected moments. Oh and try and find someone who knows what they're talking about when you try and talk about points.
The train was standing on one of only a few tracks left of what was 36 despatch tracks at the bottom of Thornton hump marshalling yard The yard was built in 1952=55 to handle mixed goods trains which were receive at the 6 incoming tracks at the west end of the yard and then pushed and sorted over the hump and controlled by one of the most up to date auto control System at the time with auto retarders which were all pre/programed The land underfoot was Built up from opencast waist transported from the old opencast site at Westfield by tipper trucks by Wimpey before work started there on the big opencast 1956 the only buildings left on of the original yard is the shed you were first in and the control tower compressor house with much removed tracks after it closed when British Rail decided to run full train loads A to B. The tracks you were on at the end form the branch line to the former Kinglassie Pit and later to Westfield opencast rail head over which millions of tons of coal was transported to the power stations in Scotland and England It may be user again for recycling transportation. The shed with the double door is home to The Union of South Africa and the Great Marques when home with their owner. Further east from your last location was the holding sidings for the made up coal trains from Rothes Pit
