East Plean Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
East Plean Colliery (-1962)Served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway).
Description
This colliery was at the end of the 'main line' of the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway). The mine was equipped with coke ovens and a retort. It was also known as Plean East Pit, No 3 or Plean Colliery.
Just north east of the colliery was Plean West Pit Junction. To the north was a curved line to Plean West Pit / Gartwhinnie Quarry and to the south another curved line reached Blackcraig Quarry (later the site of a bing).
A new shaft Plean Colliery No 4 opened to the north west in 1895. Plean Colliery No 5 (further east) opened in 1932.
The coke ovens closed in 1959.
Plean Colliery, the 3, 4 and 5 shafts, closed in 1962.
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Mine CollieryAliases
Plean East Pit10/07/2021
| Nearby stations Plean Alloa Junction Denny Bannockburn Airth Larbert Bonnybridge Central Throsk Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Camelon Dennyloanhead Falkirk Camelon [1st] Greenhill Stirling | Plean West Pit Junction Blackcraig Quarry Gartwhinnie Quarry Plean Quarry Plean Quarry Junction Plean Colliery No 4 Dunmore Colliery Siding Dunmore Colliery Plean Colliery No 5 Quarter Colliery Pit No 1 [Denny] Quarter Colliery Pit No 2 [Denny] Plean Junction Bannockburn Colliery No 3 Ingliston Goods Tourist/other Plean House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
