Solsgirth Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Solsgirth Colliery (1965-1990)| Nearby stations Dollar Bogside Fife Forest Mill Rumbling Bridge [2nd] East Grange Rumbling Bridge [1st] Tillicoultry Clackmannan Road Kilbagie Oakley (Fife) Clackmannan and Kennet Glenfoot Crook of Devon Sauchie Culross [1st] | Meadowhill Open Cast Melloch Colliery Blairingone Colliery Dollar Beg Siding Blairingone Siding Dollar Viaduct Devilla Sand Quarry Dollar Mine Arndean Cutting Devonshaw Siding Dollar Colliery Ironstone Pit Comrie Colliery Tourist/other Arndean House MOD Depot? |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1962 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Longannet Power Station planned by South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB). The National Coal Board (NCB) plans to supply it from Bogside Colliery No 3, Castlehill Mine and Solsgirth Colliery via Longannet Mine at the power station. Longannet will be connected to Solsgirth by a five mile underground conveyor. |
| 01/03/1965 | National Coal Board Construction begins of Solsgirth Colliery Pit No 2 of the Longannet Mine complex. |
| 15/04/1965 | National Coal Board Construction begins of Solsgirth Colliery Pit No 1 of the Longannet Mine complex. |
| / /1970 | National Coal Board Coal reached at Solsgirth Colliery of the Longannet Mine complex. |
| / /1988 | National Coal Board Solsgirth Colliery, of the Longannet Mine complex, driven through to Castlebridge Mine. |
