RAILSCOT | Wellesley Colliery Hugo Pit

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Wellesley Colliery Hugo Pit (1872-1920)

Served by the Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway.

This pit opened in 1872 and was connected, after 1875, by an inclined double hutchway through the Hugo Tunnel to reach the shore at West Wemyss where there was the Wellesley Colliery Victoria Pit and West Wemyss Dock.

This pit was at the end of a branch from the Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway. This left the line at the Wellesley Colliery Lady Lilian Pit and turned west and south to reach the pit from the north.

The pit was later served by a connection from the Wemyss Private Railway at the Lilian Pit, now the Wellesley Colliery Lochhead Colliery.

After closure the site became the Hugo Depot.

Nearby stations West Wemyss Wemyss Castle Dysart Thornton Junction [W&BR] Thornton Junction Glenrothes with Thornton Sinclairtown [2nd] Sinclairtown [1st] Buckhaven Cameron Bridge [1st] Cameron Bridge Kirkcaldy Methil Markinch Leven	Hugo Tunnel Wellesley Colliery Victoria Pit Wellesley Colliery Lady Pit Wellesley Colliery Lochhead Colliery Wellesley Colliery Lady Lilian Pit Wellesley Colliery Duncan Pit Michael Colliery Pits Nos 1,2 Scott^s Road Depot Dysart Workshops East Wemyss [Tram] Dysart Colliery Randolph Pit Frances Colliery Tourist/other Wemyss Castle [Castle] West Wemyss Dock East Wemyss Level Crossing
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.