Mossbeath Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Mossbeath Colliery (1895-1945)Description
This mine, opened about 1895 by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company, was linked by a short mineral railway running south east to the 1890 Kelty to Cowdenbeath (North British Railway) at Mossbeath Colliery Sidings, exchange sidings making a trailing connection to the northbound line.
A later connection ran north to the Cowdenbeath Colliery lines and another short connect ran south from near Mossbeath Colliery Sidings to the Hill of Beath Colliery Lines (and Hill of Beath Washery).
Latterly the the connection to Mossbeath Colliery Sidings closed, with the only rail connection to the north.
| Nearby stations Cowdenbeath (Old) Cowdenbeath Crossgates (Fife) Kelty Halbeath Lochgelly Dunfermline Queen Margaret Aberdour Blairadam Donibristle Platform Dalgety Bay Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline Upper Cardenden Dunfermline City | Cowdenbeath Tram Depot Hill of Beath Washery Mossbeath Colliery Sidings Kirkford Colliery Junction Hill of Beath Colliery Sidings Raith Colliery Sidings Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 8 Cowdenbeath South Junction Hill of Beath Fireclay Works Kirkford Colliery Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 Alice Pit Donibristle Colliery James Pit Donibristle Colliery Marion Pit Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 3 |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1890 | Cowdenbeath Coal Company Mossbeath Colliery sunk in the 1890s by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company. |
