Polkemmet Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Polkemmet Colliery

Served by the Greenrigg, Cultrigg and Polkemmet Collieries Railway.
Open on the William Dixon Ltd.


Nearby stations
Armadale [1st]
Longridge [2nd]
Whitburn
Longridge [1st]
Armadale
Fauldhouse and Crofthead
Bents
Foulshiels
Fauldhouse
Breich
Blackridge
Westcraigs
Headlesscross
Bathgate Upper
Bathgate [4th]
Cultrigg Colliery Pit No 2
Cultrigg Colliery Pit No 4
Cultrigg Colliery Pit No 1
Polkemmet Country Park
Greenrigg Colliery
Crofthead Colliery Pit No 7
Coal Pit
Coal Pit
Crofthead Iron Mine No 1
Coal Pit
Fauldhouse Colliery Pit No 9
Benhar Colliery Pits Nos 6 and 14
Eastfield Engine Ironstone Pit
Eastfield Iron Mine No 4
Tourist/other
Polkemmet House
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

17/07/1986Greenrigg, Cultrigg and Polkemmet Collieries Railway (William Dixon Ltd)
Benhar Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Polkemmet Colliery line out of use.
  /04/1990Benhar Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Greenrigg, Cultrigg and Polkemmet Collieries Railway (William Dixon Ltd)

Polkemmet Colliery to Benhar Junction (excluded) officially closed.

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