Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Introduction
This branch was planned and built by the Scottish Central Railway to serve quarries and the various mines of the Plean Colliery. It opened in 1865 and closed in 1964. The branch met the main line of the Scottish Central Railway at Plean Junction and ran in a south westwards direction. A halt, Plean, on the main line served the collieries.
Dates
| / /1863 | Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Plean branches authorised. |
| 01/12/1865 | Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Line opened to minerals. |
| / /1964 | Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Branch closed. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Plean Junction to Plean Colliery
To the north of Plean station the Plean colliery line met the main line. The branch was approached from the north. To the north of this were railway cottages and Plean signal box, a very tall box as it will built to be high enough to see over the road bridge over the railway just to the north. The box was on the west side of the line. Opposite this a tramway ran east to Dunmore Quarry.
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See also
Scottish Central Railway
Roger Geach 23/03/1995
Ewan Crawford //1988
Ewan Crawford //1988
A set of looped sidings were at the end of a short mineral branch from the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway). An elevated tramway linked the sidings to Dunmore Colliery, to the west.
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This colliery was equipped with coke ovens. There were three shafts, nos 3 (the oldest East Plean Colliery), 4 & 5 (Plean Colliery No 5). It was served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway), located on the south side of that mineral line and reached by reversal from Plean Quarry Junction.
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Plean Quarry siding left the 'main line' of the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway) here. The siding was on the north side of the line and approached from Plean Junction direction. After 1895 it became the junction for Plean Colliery No 4 which was approached from the south west. A loop was laid out at the junction allowing trains to reverse going to and from no 4. The ...
More detailsThis quarry was served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway). It was located on the north west side of the line and served by a siding from Plean Quarry Junction.
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This was the junction for the Plean West Pit which was located near the East Plean Colliery terminus of the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway). Later it was the junction for Gartwhinnie Quarry and Blackcraig Quarry.
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A short branch from Plean West Pit Junction served this pit. The pit was later the site of a quarry.
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This colliery was at the end of the 'main line' of the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway). The mine was equipped with coke ovens and a retort. It was also known as Plean East Pit, No 3 or Plean Colliery.
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This quarry was served by a short branch from Plean West Pit Junction. After it was worked out it later became the site of a bing.
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Plean Nos 4 and 5 Tramway
This colliery was equipped with coke ovens. There were three shafts, nos 3 (the oldest East Plean Colliery), 4 & 5 (Plean Colliery No 5). It was served by the Plean Colliery Branch (Scottish Central Railway), located on the south side of that mineral line and reached by reversal from Plean Quarry Junction.
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This shaft opened south east of [Plean Colliery No 4]] to work coal which had been reached underground from that site but which was become rather far from the pit head. It was connected by a surface tramway to no 4.
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