A cold morning at Inverkeithing

Early morning at Inverkeithing and despite how it looks I'm not trespassing but I'm standing on a foot crossing on the Rosyth branch. 170450 departs the station with 1B09 0643 from Carnoustie to Edinburgh.

A thick frost covers the ground and the sun has yet to show itself as 170418 departs Inverkeithing station with 2K13 0713 Edinburgh to Edinburgh via the Fife Circle inner.

66057 runs towards the platforms with what I believe to be 6G28 0620 Millerhill to Thornton empty MGR. The wagons look empty by their springs.

156434 wears the attractive SPT Rail Carmine and Cream colours and is diagrammed on 2G01 0720 from Edinburgh round the outer Fife Circle back to Edinburgh.

The sun is starting to fill in to the area in front of the bridge and catches the front of the loco. 66206 comes by with 6J10 0800 Longannet Power Station to Hunterston empty MGR.

A loaded MGR behind 66106, 7G12 0623 Mossend to Longannet, rumbles by. It will bear left at the junction just beyond the station and run round in Townhill Loop before back tracking through Dunfermline Town station and taking the right at Charlestown Junction onto the Longannet branch.

A move to the road over bridge just at the south end of the station. It provides a fine viewpoint and 170456 makes its station stop while employed on 2K51 0915 Edinburgh to Markinch.

Looking the other way from the bridge and the north portal of Inverkeithing tunnel is visible. 170424 has emerged from it and slows for its station stop working 1A55 0910 Edinburgh to Aberdeen.

A class 1 working to Perth pauses with 170408 working 1L37 0940 from Edinburgh, while opposite is a class 2 Fife Circle train. 158723 forms 2G03 0813 from and to Edinburgh via the outer Fife Circle.

GNER HST led by 43113 picks up trade for its 1E10 0755 Aberdeen to Kings Cross service.

As the morning wore on and the sun rose it brought with it a haar which caused some dullness. 170459 approaches with 2G49 0950 Edinburgh to Edinburgh via Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath and the outer Fife Circle.

The low morning sun glints strongly off the side of grubby 66188. Someone has cleaned the number on the front of the loco. The train is 7G13 0555 Hunterston to Longannet loaded MGR.

Back to the foot crossing on the Rosyth branch and 43095 is prefectly lit by the sun as it powers the back of 1S03 0710 Leeds to Aberdeen.

The reason for me standing here in the early morning cold was to catch a rare working, a nuclear flask coming off the Rosyth branch. 30 minutes AFTER it was due OFF the branch 66079 arrives light engine as 0Z20 0813 Millerhill to Rosyth Docks.

Just over an hour after its arrival at Inverkeithing, 66079 slowly negociates the Rosyth branch. In that time the haar had really come down and the scene was quite dull.

66079 passes signal EV411 and will soon vanish into the haar. Due to the lateness I could no longer wait for the return working so I headed off to try and catch the class 60 hauled Linkswood tanks.

And I did!! Bang on time and in glorious sunshine, the last of the class 60100 climbs the final few hundred yards of Falkland Road bank with 6N71 1225 Linkswood to Grangemouth empty TTA tanks.