Fife Coal Company



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Dalbeath Pit opened pre 1901 by the Fife Coal Company.
  /  /1860Fife Coal Company
Lumphanan No 1 Colliery opened by the Fife Coal Company.
  /  /1887Fife Coal Company
Hill of Beath Estate bought by the Fife Coal Company for housing.
  /  /1893Fife Coal Company
Aitken Colliery (Kelty) established by Thomas Aitken of the Fife Coal Company.
  /  /1896Cowdenbeath Coal Company
Taken over by the Fife Coal Company. Cowdenbeath Pit No 9 recently sunk, and Kirkford Colliery (Cowdenbeath No 10) sunk by new company.
  /  /1906Fife Coal Company
Construction of Low Valleyfield Mine by the Fife Coal Company begins.
  /  /1920Fife Coal Company
Foulford Colliery Pit No 1, to the east of Cowdenbeath station near Foulford Junction and owned by the Fife Coal Company and previously the Cowdenbeath Coal Company, is closed temporarily in the 1920s.
  /  /1924Fife Coal Company
Cowdenbeath Central Works and Offices (Cowdenbeath) opened by the Fife Coal Company.
25/07/1935Comrie Colliery
First sod cut for modern coal mine by the Fife Coal Company. 2 pits sunk. An aerial ropeway carried waste away to a bing and the mine was served by a branch from the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway which had formerly served the Kinnedar Pit. There was a level crossing and signal box in Comrie [Fife] and new handling sidings installed at Oakley.