Overlooking the Firth Of Forth, here is the MF mast of Forth 2 at Colinswell, just outside Burntisland.
Colinswell was brought into service by the IBA in the Autumn of 1983 as a replacement for the original ILR Edinburgh MF site which was at Barns Farm. About 3 miles to the west of Colinswell.
The move was as a result of a Health and Safety Executive report published in August 1978, which said that the IBA's (Radio Forth's) transmitter at Barns Farm on the Forth estuary should be moved three kilometres away from a proposed Shell plant at nearby Braefoot Bay, because of the risk of radio frequency sparks igniting concentrations of vapour at the plant. |
