Plean Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Plean Colliery (1932-1962)Served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway).
Description
This colliery was equipped with coke ovens. There were three shafts, nos 3, 4 & 5. It was served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway), located on the south side of that mineral line and reached by reversal.
It was opened by the Plean Colliery Company north east of Plean East Colliery nearby the site of which there was a bing. A further bing was located east of Plean Colliery.
It closed in 1962 and was formally abandoned the following year (leading to the closure of the branch the year after that).
Also known as Plean East Colliery (it was built just west of the settlement of East Plean which itself was later known as Plean).
The site of the colliery and grounds of Plean House are now Stirling Council - Plean Country Park .
Tags
Mine CollieryExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
10/07/2021
| Nearby stations Plean Alloa Junction Bannockburn Airth Denny Throsk Larbert Bonnybridge Central South Alloa Bonnybridge Canal Goods Stirling Stirling East Alloa Ferry Camelon Falkirk Camelon [1st] | Plean Colliery East Pit Dunmore Colliery Siding Plean Colliery West Pit Plean Colliery No 5 Dunmore Colliery Plean Junction Bannockburn Colliery No 3 Norbord Factory Bannockburn Colliery Quarter Colliery Pit No 1 [Denny] Quarter Colliery Pit No 2 [Denny] Colliery Ingliston Goods Ingliston Mine Tourist/other Plean House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Dates
| / /1931 | East Plean Colliery Pit 5 - Plean Colliery - sunk. |
