Plean Colliery East Pit
Location type
MineName and dates
Plean Colliery East Pit (-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 No 3 or Plean Colliery.
To the north was a curved line to a 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 and the 3, 4 and 5 shafts closed in 1962.
Tags
Mine Colliery10/07/2021
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| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
