Lethans Colliery Pit No 1
Location type
MineName and dates
Lethans Colliery Pit No 1 (1907-1920)Served by the Steelend Branch Extension (North British Railway).
Description
This colliery was north of Knock Hill. It was served by a railway from the east, which came north from Steelend Goods and came around the east side of the hill.
Lethans Colliery Pit No 2 was to the south, at Steelend Colliery.
The site of the mine is now occupied by farm buildings and a house, however a girder bridge which carried a minor road over the line remains to the east. The line formation remains largely intact from the Knockhill Circuit to the end of the line.
Local
Knock Hill translates as 'hill' hill.
Tags
MineExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Crook of Devon Rumbling Bridge [2nd] Rumbling Bridge [1st] Oakley (Fife) Balado East Grange Dunfermline Upper Dunfermline [1st] Blairadam Cairneyhill Dunfermline City Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd] Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline Queen Margaret Torryburn | Ironstone Mine Outh Bridge Outh Engine Pit Saline Valley Colliery Pit No 3 Saline Valley Colliery Pit No 4 Saline Valley Colliery Coal Pit Saline Valley Colliery Lethans Junction Steelend Goods Lethans Colliery Pit No 2 Saline Valley Colliery Pit No 1 Bandrum Colliery Cowglen Quarry Tourist/other Knock Hill Killernie Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1906 | Steelend Branch Extension (North British Railway) Sheardrum Extension opened to Lethans Colliery Pit No 1 (still being sunk). Branch built at the cost of Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co. |
| / /1920 | Steelend Branch Extension (North British Railway) Lethans Colliery Pit No 1 closed. |
| /01/1935 | Steelend Branch Extension (North British Railway) The Sheardrum Extension officially closed (Lethans Colliery Pit No 1 had closed in late 1919). |
