Cleuch Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Cleuch Colliery

Served by the Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway).

Chronology Dates

  /  /1867Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Authorisation for the branch from Lawhead Junction to Lawhead and Cleuch Colliery.
  /  /1867Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Lawhead Junction to Cleuch Colliery branch authorised.
  /  /1869Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Lawhead and Cleuch Colliery branch partly opened. The remainder, although authorised, is not built.
01/02/1869Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Cleuch Colliery branch opened. (Not long after opening the line was cut back in the same year.)
  /  /1950Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Cleuch Colliery branch closed in the 1950s.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Lanarkshire's Last Days of Steam

Lanarkshire's Last Days of Steam

Lanarkshire's Lost Railways

Lanarkshire's Lost Railways

Lanarkshire's Mining Disasters

Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy
Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy
Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy

Old Forth: With Wilsontown, Climpy, Braehead, Haywood, Auchengray, Woolfords and Tarbrax