Brora Mine
Location type
MineName and dates
Brora Mine (1812-1976)Where: Highland
Served by the Brora Mine Waggonway.
Description
This mine was at Faskally in the west of Brora, on the north bank of the River Brora. In addition to the mine there was a brick works and clay pit.
This small coalfield stood separate to most of the coal mines in Scotland, a small isolated area of Jurassic coal. The mine was sunk for the Duke of Sutherland opening around 1814. Coal was shipped at the nearby Brora Harbour, the Brora Mine Waggonway connecting the two.
Coal and bricks were transferred, from 1870, to trains at Brora station as the tramway was altered to run to the loading bank there, at the north end of the station (west side).
The original mine closed in 1969, a drift closing in 1976.
Tags
Coal mine colliery drift mine| Nearby stations Brora Dunrobin Castle Golspie Loth Skelbo The Mound Embo Cambusavie Platform West Helmsdale Helmsdale Salzcraggie Dornoch Rogart Kildonan Borrobol | Sutherland Mills Brora Viaduct Dunrobin Carriage Shed Golspie Burn Viaduct Golspie Shed Kileanan Railway Cottage Tourist/other Brora Harbour Clynelish Distillery Uppat House Carn Liath Broch Dunrobin Castle [Castle] Duke of Sutherland Monument Loch Fleet Kilearnan Hill Portgower Station Level Crossing |
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