Airth Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Airth Colliery
| Nearby stations Alloa Junction Airth Plean Larbert Throsk Camelon South Alloa Falkirk Camelon [1st] Bannockburn Alloa Ferry Denny Falkirk Grahamston Kincardine Camelon [1st] Bonnybridge Central | Pleanmill Quarry Bridge-end [Letham Moss] Larbert Clay Works Plean Colliery No 5 Stenhousemuir Siding Colliery Muirhall Foundry Muirhall Siding Dunmore Junction Norbord Factory Plean Junction Plean Colliery No 4 Tourist/other Carnock House Stenhousemuir Signal Box Plean House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /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). |
| /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. |
| /12/1999 | Scottish Coal Dewar Zone workings of the Longannet Mine complex opened near the area of Airth Colliery (the workings reached under the Forth to the opposite bank downstream of the Kincardine Bridge). |
