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Blantyre Colliery Pit No 3

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Blantyre Colliery Pit No 3

Served by the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway.

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The Blantyre Colliery was owned by William Smith Dixon. The 1877 mining disaster was an explosion at nos 2 and particularly 3 pits leaving an appalling 207 dead.

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01/07/2020

Nearby stations High Blantyre Burnbank Blantyre Foundry Blantyre Peacock Cross Hamilton West Calderwood Glen Platform Bothwell [North British] Bothwell [CR] Hamilton [NBR] Meikle Earnock Halt Hamilton Central Quarter Junction Fallside Uddingston East	Priestfield Colliery No 1 Birdsfield Wagon Works Birdsfield Tile Works Blantyre Colliery Pit No 2 Birdsfield Siding Blantyre Pits Signal Box Udston Colliery Auchinraith Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Udston Signal Box Blantyre No 4 Pit Box Auchinraith Junction [NBR] C W Ireland Works Hunthill Junction Auchinraith Junction Earnock Colliery Pits Nos 1, 2 and 3
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Blantyre Colliery Pit No 3

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