National Coal Board
Dates
| / /1875 | South Hetton Coal Company Railway One of Timothy Hackworth's locomotives withdrawn to be used as snowplough. Was taken by the National Coal Board to Philadelphia Works for display. |
| 30/07/1900 | Londonderry Railway Sold to North Eastern Railway. Stock, coal wagons, colliery lines and Seaham Harbour pass to the Seaham Harbour Dock Company (not later merged into the National Coal Board). Hall Dene station remains in Lord Seaham's ownership. Bath Hotel (Hendon) and Station Hotel (Seaham) were excluded. |
| / /1903 | Prestonlinks Mine (Prestonpans) Opened on site of abandoned mine at Cockenzie, transferred to Edinburgh Collieries Ltd and then National Coal Board. |
| / /1907 | Smeaton Colliery (Dalkeith) Opened for A G Moore & Co, closed by National Coal Board. |
| / /1928 | Lugar Iron Works Closed, later used by the National Coal Board as headquarters and workshops. |
| / /1932 | Plean Colliery Company Plean Colliery No 5 opened to produce coking coal. Originally it had its own coke ovens and, later, under National Coal Board used the Dumbreck Coke Ovens, Kilsyth. |
| / /1943 | Winton Pit (Ormiston) Opened by National Coal Board, part of NCB Ormiston scheme, (originally opened by the Ormiston Coal Co as a ventilation shaft, made into a mine by the NCB). |
| /08/1946 | Kingshill Colliery No 3 Sunk by the National Coal Board, originally planned by the Coltness Iron Works. |
| / /1947 | National Coal Board Keen to develop Esk Basin. |
| / /1947 | Baads Mine (West Calder) To National Coal Board. |
| / /1947 | United Collieries Ltd, Glasgow To National Coal Board. |
| / /1947 | Easton Mine (Bathgate) Washery added by National Coal Board. |
| 01/01/1947 | National Coal Board Formed |
| 01/01/1947 | Fife Coal Company National Coal Board Assets of the Fife Coal Company transferred to the National Coal Board. |
| 01/01/1947 | Fife Coal Company National Coal Board Blairadam Brick Works transferred from the Fife Coal Company to the National Coal Board. |
| / /1948 | Tillycoultry Mine Re-opened after National Coal Board re-construction. |
| / /1948 | National Coal Board Henderson Mine complete. |
| / /1950 | Polmaise Colliery Pit No 5 Opened by the National Coal Board for coking coal, but only used for ventilation. |
| / /1950 | Prestongrange Mine (Prestonpans) National Coal Board opens pithead baths. |
| / /1950 | National Coal Board Over-production as demand drops. |
| / /1950 | National Coal Board Medical centre and canteen opened at Dumbreck Colliery. |
| / /1950 | National Coal Board Fordell Colliery William Pit closed. |
| / /1950 | National Coal Board Established the small Quarter Collieries Knowetop Pit, Quarter Collieries Beatons Lodge Pit and Avonbraes Pit (on site of earlier Avonbanks Pit 1824-1857) in the 1950s. |
| / /1951 | National Coal Board Equipment to recover unusable slurry installed at Dumbreck Colliery. |
| / /1951 | National Coal Board Torry Mine construction begins. |
| /06/1951 | Kinneil Mine (Kinneil) Opened by National Coal Board for coal, built on the site of the Furnaceyard Mine. |
| / /1952 | Kingshill Colliery No 3 Opened by the National Coal Board. Connected by double track cable haulage railway to new preparation plant at Kingshill Colliery No 1. The new preparation plant also replaces the Royal George Washery at the Coltness Iron Works and is used for coal from Branchal Mine and Overtown Mine. |
| / /1952 | Sundrum Nos 5 and 6 National coal Board opens a temporary pit. |
| /05/1952 | Bilston Glen Colliery (Loanhead) First Sod cut by National Coal Board. |
| /08/1952 | National Coal Board Begins sinking pit no 3 at Bowhill Colliery and improves pits nos 1 and 2. |
| / /1953 | Dalkeith Colliery (Dalkeith) Coal Preparation Plant opened by National Coal Board, uses existing 5, 6 for ventilation and 7, 8 for access, uses the Smeaton Colliery bing. |
| 16/12/1953 | Monktonhall Colliery (Millerhill) First sod cut by National Coal Board. |
| / /1954 | Polmaise Colliery Pit No 5 National Coal Board plans re-construction. |
| / /1954 | Manor Powis Colliery National Coal Board plan to re-build no 3 pit and a drift mine nearby. |
| / /1954 | National Coal Board Development of Seafield Colliery begins. |
| /01/1954 | Alloa NCB Workshops Opened by the National Coal Board to replace smaller workshops at the Whins, Alloa, and Fallin. The works and stores were opened by the railway and could overhaul locomotives. |
| /08/1954 | National Coal Board Valleyfield Colliery no 3 pit sinking begins on reclaimed land to the south of no 1 and 2 pits. No 2 pit is re-built. Spoil is dumped on the River Forth foreshore and ultimately, combined with ash from Longannet Power Station, connects Preston Island to the mainland. |
| / /1955 | Minnivey Nos 4,5 (Burnton) Opened by National Coal Board. |
| / /1955 | Riddochill Mine (Bathgate) National Coal Board installs first continuous miner system. |
| / /1955 | National Coal Board Torry Mine is opened to the north of Valleyfield Colliery to which it is connected by a tramway, partly underground in a half mile tunnel. |
| / /1955 | National Coal Board Drilling rig assembled in St David's Harbour to be used to check the under-sea reserves of the new Seafield Colliery. |
| /10/1956 | Allander Scheme Public enquiry for the National Coal Board's proposed Allander Scheme to mine for coal under Bearsden and Milngavie, no decision reached. |
| / /1957 | Polquhain Colliery (Rankinston) Re-built by the National Coal Board. |
| / /1957 | Cuthill Mine Opened by National Coal Board. |
| / /1958 | National Coal Board The National Coal Board starts sinking a new Airth Colliery mine for coking coal west of Airth station on the South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway). |
| / /1959 | Douglas Colliery Re-built by the National Coal Board. |
| / /1959 | Allander Scheme National Coal Board estimates Allander Scheme would not be needed into the 1980s and housing is built on the proposed site. |
| / /1959 | National Coal Board Bogside Mine opened, to serve the Kincardine Power Station. |
| / /1959 | National Coal Board Benarty Mine closed. |
| /02/1959 | National Coal Board Sinking of the new Airth Colliery mine is abandoned. The NCB was losing £12 million a month and the demand for coking coal had reduced. |
| / /1960 | National Coal Board Polkemmet Mine (Whitburn) rebuilt to include a preparation plant. This produced 12000 tons of coking coal per week for the Ravenscraig Steel Works. |
| / /1960 | Lurgi Gas Plant Lochore Branch (North British Railway) Opened by the National Coal Board to utilise low rank coal from Westfield Opencast in a high pressure gasification process. The plant produced the base load of the central Scotland gas supply. The site was served by sidings from the nearby line, next to Kirkness Farm Siding. |
| / /1960 | National Coal Board Lochore Branch (North British Railway) Westfield Opencast opened. A new yard and loading point, Westfield Disposal Point [1st], were built to serve the opencast site. |
| /01/1960 | National Coal Board Cowdenbeath Colliery closed with production mine Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7 and Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 10 (services) closed. |
| /06/1960 | National Coal Board Dollar Mine Pits Nos 4 and 5 opened, to mostly serve the Kincardine Power station. |
| / /1961 | Whitehill Pit (Rosewell) Closed by National Coal Board. |
| / /1961 | Sundrum Nos 5 and 6 This short lived National Coal Board pit closed. |
| /01/1961 | Gilmerton Pit (Gilmerton) Closed by National Coal Board. |
| / /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. |
| / /1962 | National Coal Board Blairenbathie Mine closed. |
| /02/1962 | National Coal Board Partial closure of Hassockrigg Colliery. |
| /07/1962 | National Coal Board Complete closure of Hassockrigg Colliery |
| / /1963 | National Coal Board Aitken Colliery (Kelty) closed. |
| / /1963 | Bilston Glen Colliery (Loanhead) Opened by National Coal Board. |
| / /1964 | Burghlee Mine (Loanhead) Closed by National Coal Board. (Was opened by Shotts Iron Co). |
| / /1964 | National Coal Board Construction begins of drift mines to supply the new Longannet Power Station. Longannet Mine (where coal was brought to the surface), a new Bogside Mine (No 3), Castlehill Mine and Solsgirth Mine. The mines will work the Upper Hirst seam. |
| /01/1964 | National Coal Board Scottish Rexco Company Plant opened by Scottish Rexco Company at Comrie Colliery to make domestic smokeless fuel. |
| 30/04/1964 | National Coal Board Kinneil Mine is connected to Valleyfield Colliery, under the Firth of Forth. Following this, coal is brought up at Kinneil Mine. |
| / /1965 | Ramsay Pit (Loanhead) Closed by National Coal Board. (Opened by RBW Ramsay.) |
| / /1965 | National Coal Board Torry Mine closed. |
| / /1965 | National Coal Board Frances Colliery washery closed, coal was then taken to the Bowhill Washery. |
| /01/1965 | National Coal Board Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5 closed. |
| 26/01/1965 | Monktonhall Colliery (Millerhill) Opened by National Coal Board. |
| 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. |
| /07/1965 | National Coal Board Bowhill Colliery closed, but the Bowhill Washery remains open. |
| / /1966 | National Coal Board Quarter Collieries Knowetop Pit closed. |
| / /1966 | National Coal Board Production begins at Seafield Colliery. |
| / /1966 | National Coal Board Lochore Colliery Mary Pit closed. |
| / /1966 | National Coal Board Kinglassie Colliery closed. |
| / /1966 | National Coal Board Lumphinnans Colliery Pits Nos 11 and 12 closed. |
| / /1967 | National Coal Board With Wellesley Colliery worked out, staff are moved to Seafield Colliery. |
| / /1967 | National Coal Board Dysart Workshops closed. |
| / /1967 | National Coal Board Cowdenbeath Central Works becomes the principal Fife workshops when Dysart Workshops and Alloa NCB Workshops closed. |
| /01/1967 | National Coal Board Dumbreck Colliery and its Dumbreck Coke Ovens closed when the Mossend ICI Ammonia Plant closed (coke ovens need ammonia). Demand for coking coal had reduced with the closure of Gartsherrie Iron Works. |
| / /1968 | National Coal Board Dysart Colliery Randolph Pit closed. |
| / /1969 | National Coal Board Scottish Brick Company Blairadam Brick Works transferred from the National Coal Board to the Scottish Brick Company. |
| /05/1969 | National Coal Board Blairhall Colliery closed (alternative date 13/06/1969). Coal preparation plant remains open. |
| /08/1969 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery reaches peak output of 3260 tons in a week. |
| / /1970 | Harviestoun Drift Mine Opened to the east of the former National Coal Board mine. |
| / /1970 | National Coal Board Coal reached at Solsgirth Colliery of the Longannet Mine complex. |
| / /1970 | National Coal Board The two drifts of Castlehill Mine, of the Longannet Mine complex, in production. |
| /06/1970 | National Coal Board Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Bringing coal to the surface at Bogside Mine ceases. Sidings closed. |
| /04/1971 | National Coal Board Blairhall Colliery coal preparation plant closed. |
| 29/11/1971 | Taff Vale Extension Middle Duffryn Junction to Mountain Ash sold to the National Coal Board. |
| /05/1973 | National Coal Board 5 men killed in a roof fall at the Seafield Colliery. |
| 09/01/1977 | Rumney Railway Bargoed to Britannia Colliery closed, coal worked by the National Coal Board over their private line to Bargoed Washery connected to the Rhymney Railway at Bargoed Pits Junction. |
| / /1978 | National Coal Board Plan authorised for new mine, which was to be called Castlebridge Mine, for the Longannet Mine complex, to the south of Forrestmill. This extended the workings west. |
| / /1978 | National Coal Board Valleyfield Colliery closed. |
| / /1980 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery open day held. |
| / /1980 | National Coal Board Cowdenbeath Mine Rescue Team privatised and moved to Crossgate. Now specialise in training and to respond to Longannet Mine complex emergencies. |
| / /1981 | National Coal Board Approximate date of underground connection between Seafield Colliery and Frances Colliery. |
| / /1984 | National Coal Board Polkemmet Mine closed. The mine was flooded as pumping ceased during the Miner's Strike. Mine completely abandoned in 1986. |
| / /1984 | National Coal Board Frances Colliery effectively closed following underground fires during the Miner's Strike. |
| / /1986 | National Coal Board Castlebridge Mine, the new mine of the Longannet Mine complex, opened. |
| / /1986 | National Coal Board Becomes British Coal Corporation. |
| / /1986 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery closed. |
| /07/1987 | National Coal Board Plan to link Polmaise Nos 3 and 4 Colliery with Longannet Mine complex abandoned. |
| / /1988 | National Coal Board Solsgirth Colliery, of the Longannet Mine complex, driven through to Castlebridge Mine. |
| / /1988 | British Coal Corporation Cowdenbeath Central Works and offices closed by British Coal Corporation (formerly National Coal Board). (Seafield Colliery closed in 1988.) |
| / /1988 | National Coal Board Frances Colliery officially closed. |
| / /1988 | National Coal Board Seafield Colliery closed. |
| / /1988 | National Coal Board National Coal Board Central Works Fife closed. |
| / /1989 | National Coal Board Barony Colliery Pits Nos 1,2,3,4 closed. |
