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Mount Melville railway station

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Mount Melville railway station served the Mount Melville estate outside St Andrews, Fife, Scotland from 1887 to 1930 on the Anstruther and St Andrews Railway.

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Mount Melville railway station
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Mount Melville

A915
KY16 8PJ
Scotland, United Kingdom
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