Early September 2016 saw a rail bridge replacement over the Muir Road towards Sweetholme Road – by the remains of the old farm steading at Easter Ballomill. A Saturday closure of the line enabled a new bridge to be craned into position. Other works that are happening are improvements to the adjacent bridge that carries the trains over Rankeilour Burn. So the contractors will be working there for a couple of months. The path should be useable for pedestrians and cyclists for most of that time.

Can we sort the Flooded Path as well?

A 500t crane was used to do the bridge lift so the track from Bow of Fife level crossing down to Easter Ballomill has been made up with coarse stone. This may help the flooding problem that saw the route being closed for many weeks over the winter.

However Springfield Community Council is taking the opportunity to speak to Network Rail about a longterm solution to what we think is probably a blocked drain under the rail embankment.   We’ll let you know what the outcome of that is.

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We are looking for new members on the Community Council.  People that are interested in doing something positive for the village, and can play as part of a team.  If you have particular interests that would be great – football, any sports that can be played in the new park, bookkeeping, social media – all these things are a priority. If you’ve got other skills that would be great. Can you help?  Commitment is only 5 meetings a year, as we don’t want it to be a burden.  Contact us or just come along to a meeting (dates are on the About page).  Thanks.

Here we are on our own website for the first time – we’ve had a lot of feedback from residents about needing to be better at reaching out with communications.  So this is part of how we are trying to do that.

We will continue to post notices and a copy of the minutes in the display box outside the village shop and also send pieces into the Springfield column of the Fife Herald.  But we will also post notices here on this website – so bookmark it etc.

We also plan to set up a newsfeed in due course – which residents can sign up for email.

Keep watching!