EFCR. Coooalmann!! Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Mickkay: No one has logged this cache since I renewed in September 2020. 1st new log today to say DNF. So it's time for it to go.

Mickkay 👋

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Hidden : 2/21/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The first in a short (for the time being) series of caches placed along part of the now disused, East Fife Central Railway. Which closed in 1964.

This cache is set at what was once Kennoway Station. There is a canopy and pillars that are remains of the station.
And as you look around you will see remnants of a railway location in and around the buildings here. This location was used by the local coal merchant as a storage and distribution depot. (Who would deliver locally with the call of Coooalmann!! Coooalmann!! repeatedly around the local streets.
Of which I have memories of as a child.
The cache is situated around an area of which was once a goods railway carriage. There is plenty space for parking on old station road.
Cachers who find these details interesting can see vague traces of the Railways route on Google Maps, (in satellite mode). Alongside the use of a Pre-1960's OS map of the area that can be found on-line here. (visit link)

More info about the Lochty Station can be found at Kryten's “The lady vanishes” Cache page. (Although Kryten's cache has been archived, it is still available for viewing as an archived cache.@ (visit link)
And also on the East Fife Central Railway page of the RAILSCOT website. @ (visit link)

Balgrummo Embankment (GC46DWW), Water Tank (GC46CB6) & Hubblegardner's Cuil a Slighe Dead Bridge Baldastard (GC25J67) Caches are all part of this Railway line. So they all can be added as caches in this series. For completists, Wester Durie (GC46CBN), can be added. Although not placed as a part of this series, it is close to a now long gone bridge on the same railway line, before the road was re-routed when part of the bridge was blown down during the Storm of 1968, (known as Hurricane Low Q). Which claimed 20 lives in the January of that year.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ghpxrq hc Haqre

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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