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Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7

Nearby stations Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Crossgates (Fife) Kelty Lochgelly Halbeath Dunfermline Queen Margaret Cardenden Blairadam Aberdour Donibristle Platform Dalgety Bay Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline Upper Dunfermline City	Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 8 Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 3 Cowdenbeath Colliery Shed Kirkford Colliery Junction Cowdenbeath Colliery Dora Opencast Loading Pad National Coal Board Central Works Fife Foulford Junction Mossbeath Colliery Cowdenbeath Tram Depot Cowdenbeath North Junction Raith Colliery Sidings Hill of Beath Colliery Sidings Mossbeath Colliery Sidings Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 9
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1860	Cowdenbeath Coal Company Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 sunk by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company.
/ /1890	Cowdenbeath Coal Company Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 3 operates as upcast, Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 operates as ventilation pit, Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 8 operates as pumping and downcast for the Cowdenbeath Coal Company's colliery.
/ /1896	Cowdenbeath Coal Company Fife Coal Company Taken over by the Fife Coal Company. The FCC takes over Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7, Cowdenbeath Pit No 9 (recently sunk), Lumphinnans Colliery Pits Nos 11 and 12. Kirkford Colliery (Cowdenbeath Colliery No 10) is sunk by new company.
/01/1960	National Coal Board Cowdenbeath Colliery closed with production mine Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 and Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 10 (services) closed.
/02/1970	Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) National Coal Board Central Works Fife to Foulford Junction to Cowdenbeath (Old) (excluded) closed. The line serving the works and running west to Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7's Cowdenbeath Colliery Shed closed.