Fife Coal Co Ltd
Introduction
This company was first registered in 1872. Another company, of the same name, was registered in 1895 to take over the first. It took over the Cowdenbeath Coal Company in 1896. The company owned several lines: Comrie Colliery Branch (Fife Coal Company) Cowdenbeath Colliery Railway Leven Colliery Branch (Fife Coal Company) Wellsgreen Colliery Branch (Fife Coal Company) (and more)
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Mines
Sinking of the colliery began in 1893 under Thomas Aitken of the Fife Coal Co Ltd, it was in production by 1895/96. The colliery had an adjoining washery. It was east of the village of Kelty.
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See also
Kinross-shire Railway
This was a large underground mine opened in 1939 by the Fife Coal Co Ltd to the north west of Oakley. When opened it was a modern state of the art mine.
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See also
Comrie Colliery Branch (Fife Coal Company)
Bill Roberton 17/04/1983
Bill Roberton //1976
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Bill Roberton //1974
Bill Roberton //1974
Sunk by the Fife Coal Co Ltd. Opened in 1911. The railway to the west was extended to the site Westfield to Kinglassie Line (North British Railway). It was later, in 1919, extended to Redford Junction to create a long loop line from Kelty to Redford.
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Bill Roberton //1990
Bill Roberton /06/2005
This was a Fife Coal Co Ltd pit. It was located on the east side of the West of Fife Mineral Railway in the east of the village of Kelty and south of Kelty North Junction. This railway was a single track minerals line which ran south to Townhill and Dunfermline.
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West of Fife Mineral Railway
Bill Roberton 30/01/2012
The oldest parts of this colliery date back to 1826 when the Forth Iron Works (Oakley Iron Company) operated a number of iron and coal mines in the area.
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Lumphinnans No 11 was opened beside the Kinross-shire Railway south of Kelty station (and the later Kelty South Junction by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company.
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Kinross-shire Railway
This colliery was sunk by the Fife Coal Co Ltd at a site between Culross [1st] to the west and Torryburn to the east. The mine was on the north side of the line. It was laid out with an exchange yard to the west, accessed from the east from the main line. The mine sidings were to the east of the exchange yard. To the south of the main railway were tip sidings, approached from the ...
More detailsSee also
Kincardine and Dunfermline Railway (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton 28/04/2012
Works
This mining works was opened by the Fife Coal Co Ltd in 1924. The works carried out maintenance work (eg overhauls of locomotives and wagons) and provided equipment needed by the large number of mines in the area. There was an office block too. The works was to the north east of Cowdenbeath [1st] station and served by the coal company's private railway network, predating the works, which ...
More detailsCowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 Shed was a two track shed approached from the west. It was west of the National Coal Board Central Works Fife and south of the line which approached the works.
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