Comrie Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Comrie Colliery (1939-1986)Served by the Comrie Colliery Branch (Fife Coal Company).
Open on the Fife Coal Co Ltd.
Description
This was a large underground mine opened in 1939 by the Fife Coal Co Ltd to the north west of Oakley. When opened it was a modern state of the art mine.
The mine was served by a new connection to the Kinnedar Branch (North British Railway). It was in an area formerly mined for iron ore and coal for the Fife Iron Works.
It had its own washery and a smokeless fuel plant. An aerial ropeway carried waste away to a bing.
This mine was the last served by the line from Dunfermline Upper and its closure led to closure of that line back to Townhill Junction. There was an exchange yard just north of Oakley on the branch.
Tags
Mine Aerial ropewayExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations East Grange Oakley (Fife) Bogside Fife Torryburn Culross [1st] Culross [2nd] Cairneyhill Forest Mill Kilbagie Dollar Rumbling Bridge [2nd] Rumbling Bridge [1st] Kincardine Clackmannan Road Braeside Halt | Ironstone Pit No 15 Ironstone Pit No 16 Coal and Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit No 12 Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit No 13 Ironstone Pit No 14 Coal Pit No 4 Coal Pit No 17 Kineddar Mine Coal Pit No 1 Coal Pit Comrie Dean Viaduct Tourist/other Comrie Castle MOD Depot? |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 25/07/1935 | Fife Coal Company First sod of the Comrie Colliery cut for this modern coal mine. 2 pits sunk. An aerial ropeway carried waste away to a bing and the mine was served by a branch from the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway which had formerly served the Kinnedar Pit. There was a level crossing and signal box in Comrie LC [Fife] and new handling sidings installed at Oakley. |
| /06/1942 | Fife Coal Company Comrie Colliery baths completed. |
| /01/1964 | National Coal Board Scottish Rexco Company Plant opened by Scottish Rexco Company at Comrie Colliery to make domestic smokeless fuel. |
| /08/1969 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery reaches peak output of 3260 tons in a week. |
| / /1980 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery open day held. |
| / /1984 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) Comrie Colliery to Oakley to Dunfermline Upper closed. Dunfermline Upper to Townhill Junction closed. |
| / /1986 | National Coal Board Comrie Colliery closed. |
News items
| 04/03/2023 | 'I owe my life to a lazy sparky!', says former Fife coal miner as interactive mining display plan gathers pace [The Courier] |
