EFCR. Lochty Station Traditional Cache
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A series of caches placed along the route of the disused Kennoway to Lochty Railway.
Another cache placed along the Kennoway to Lochty section of the now disused, East Fife Central Railway. This freight line served many of the farms and now long gone Collieries that dotted this area of East Fife. Which became another of Mr Beeching victims during the Sixties, closing in 1964. Most of these caches are set beside or near to crossings of different kinds. Mainly bridge remains or of some that are still intact, in seeming random areas. All Caches named in this series are named after the nearest place names on the OS map of the area. And are not accurate of the bridge/crossing names.
This is the end of the line for the Kennoway to Lochty rail-line after the line was shut in 1964, a short length of track adjacent to the Lochty terminus remained. Which was later to become the Lochty Private Railway, which was run mainly as a tourist attraction until its closure in 1992. 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 (Although Kryten's cache has been archived, it is still available for viewing as an archived cache.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)
Balgrummo Embankment (GC46DWW), Coooalmann!! (GC46CAF), 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.
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