Kirkcaldy Central Fife S Trams Buses

Walter Burt explores the history of tram and bus services in Kirkcaldy and the surrounding area.

Kirkcaldy had the honour of being the first town in Fife to build a tramway after obtaining Parliamentary Authority to build several lines in the town. The system opened on 28 February 1903 and connected Gallatown and Linktown (the west end of Link Street), by way of the Path and High Street. Another tramway system was to follow in 1906, financed and built by Randolph Wemyss to transport his workers between the villages and the coal pits in his ownership. In 1927 Kirkcaldy Town Council had to allow motor bus services to run along their tram routes, the competition forcing the closure of the tramway on 15 May 1931, the Wemyss system closing in January 1932. The General Motor Carrying Company began motor bus services in 1913, passing them on to Walter Alexander and, through the Scottish Bus Group, to Stagecoach Fife in the present day. Walter Burt, himself a Fife bus driver, uses a wide selection of black and white and colour images to tell the story of Kirkcaldy and Central Fife's trams and buses.

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