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Lundin Links railway station

1857 establishments in Scotland1965 disestablishments in ScotlandBeeching closures in ScotlandDisused railway stations in FifeFife railway station stubs
Former North British Railway stationsPages with no open date in Infobox stationRailway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857Use British English from April 2018
Lundin Links station site geograph 3766982 by Ben Brooksbank
Lundin Links station site geograph 3766982 by Ben Brooksbank

Lundin Links railway station served the village of Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland from 1857 to 1965 on the Fife Coast Railway.

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Lundin Links railway station
Links Road,

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N 56.2104 ° E -2.9624 °
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Lundin Links

Links Road
KY8 6BD
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Lundin Links station site geograph 3766982 by Ben Brooksbank
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Lower Largo
Lower Largo

Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth. It is east of, and contiguous with, Lundin Links. Largo is an ancient fishing village in the parish of Largo. An excavated late 5th century cemetery points to an early settlement of the site, and there are records of the Knights Templar holding lands to the east of the town in the 12th century. It was made a "burgh of barony" by Sir Andrew Wood in 1513. This meant it had the right to erect a mercat cross and hold weekly markets, but not the extensive trading rights of a royal burgh. In 1654, Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu mentions Largo as "Largow burne-mouth" in his Nova Fifae Descriptio. Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The house that now stands at his birthplace on 99-105 Main Street features a life-sized statue of Selkirk wearing self-made goatskin clothes, scanning the horizon. A signpost at the harbour points to Juan Fernández Islands, some 7,500 miles distant, where Selkirk lived for more than four years as a castaway. The arrival of the railway in 1857 brought many tourists to Lower Largo's sandy beach. The village has retained many historic buildings from the 17th to 19th century, and in 1978 it was designated as a conservation area.The Fife Coast Railway line through Lower Largo was closed in 1965 as part of the restructuring programme of British railways known as the Beeching cuts (overseen by Richard Beeching), and though it has been disused since then the viaduct that dominates the village remains an important local landmark. The war memorial in Lower Largo was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.