Car Shed at East Wemyss
A cottage-style structure with a pantiled roof and canopy was provided to shelter Kirkcaldy-bound passengers in the pretty planned village of East Wemyss. Scottish Motor Traction acquired the tramway from Balfour Beatty and closed it down in January 1932, but the shelter has survived, and after a number of uses is now a hairdresser's.
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Promoted and built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 ins by Wemyss Coal Company proprietor Randolph Wemyss, the Wemyss and District Tramway Company commenced operation on 25 August 1906 over a 7.45 mile (11.99 km) route from Leven through Methil and Coaltown of Wemyss to Gallatown where it joined the Kirkcaldy and District system running into the town centre at Whytescauseway near the railway station. Inevitably it took traffic from the North British Railway's Methil branch whose passengers had to change at Thornton Jn for Kirkcaldy. Most of the land that it used was owned by the Company.
On the east side of the A955 opposite a Spar shop. To the north is a memorial to Fleet Air Arm Commander Wilfred Waller, of 807 Squadron, who managed to steered a blazing aeroplane over the rooftops of the village only to crashland in a nearby field. Further south along the High Street is the memorial to the nine miners who died in a fire at the Michael Colliery in 1967.
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Bibliography: “The Leven and East of Fife Railway” by Andrew Hajducki, Mike Jodeluk, Alan Simpson (Oakwood, 2013)
The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.
The Golden Age of Buses, Charles, Klapper, 1984
Fifeshire, Cambridge County Geographical