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This photograph shows Dunfermline Lower Station around 1950 when it had three platforms, long enough to accommodate the long Aberdeen to London trains. There were machines that sold chocolate and chewing gum, and another that embossed aluminium strips to be used as name labels. More photographs like this can also be seen in the Local Studies Department at St Margaret’s House in St Margaret’s Street.
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I never knew that the station had three platforms
Dunfermline Town is Dunfermline Lower though, isn’t it ?
Looks better than it is now.
It looks much the same as the 2016 Fife Circle trains
Gillian Stocks. Scotrails new Turbostar
Remember 5 boys chocolate bar from vending machine
This is a photograph from the late 1950s which shows the third platform which is now part of the car park.
Never remember three platforms
Used to get so excited waiting for the steam train on that platform when going to Elgin for my holidays xx
Loved going to Edinburgh on the steam train!
I remember the aluminium strip machines.
I used to love standing on the bridges above the railway lines and smelling the smoke as they passed below, it was more steam than smoke but it had that distinctive smell.
Another photograph from 11th June 1983 shows British Rail’s no expense spared renaming of the station from Dunfermline Lower to plain Dunfermline.
Remember the 3rd platform before it became the car park on the platform 1 side.
I would wager that the vending machines sold Beech Nut chewing gum and possibly another selling fruit gums….. can anyone confirm my thoughts?
I used to collect the Edinburgh evening newspapers coming off the train from the Waverley for the paper shop where I delivered round Pittencrieff area in the early 50s
My Dad worked there in the 50’s/60’s