Plean Colliery



Dates

  /  /1863Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Plean branches authorised.
01/12/1865Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Line opened to minerals.
  /  /1894East Plean Colliery
Bought by Wallace Thorneycroft.
  /  /1895East Plean Colliery
Operated by Plean Colliery Company with Wallace Thorneycroft as manager. Pit 4 was sunk.
  /07/1922East Plean Colliery
12 killed and 7 injured.
  /  /1931East Plean Colliery
Pit 5 sunk.
  /  /1932Plean Colliery
Opened by the Plean Colliery Company to produce coking coal for, originally, its own coke ovens and, later, National Coal Board ovens at Dumbreck Colliery, Kilsyth. (Possibly Haugh Coke Works?)
  /10/1950East Plean Colliery
Fire damages pit.
  /  /1951East Plean Colliery
Re-opened.
  /02/1959East Plean Colliery
Coke ovens closed due to reduced demand for coke.
  /  /1962Plean Colliery
Closed.
  /  /1962East Plean Colliery
Closed.
  /  /1964Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Branch closed.