Dollar Mine
Location type
MineName and dates
Dollar Mine (1943-1973)Served by the Devon Valley Railway.
Description
This coal mine was located east of Dollar station. The branch to the mine ran from the loop at the east end of the station.
From 1958, this mine provided coal for Kincardine Power Station. (See Tillicoultry for photographs of a loaded coal train]]).
The branch to the mine kept the line open to mineral traffic after closure to passengers until 1973.
Tags
MineExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Dollar Rumbling Bridge [2nd] Rumbling Bridge [1st] Tillicoultry Glenfoot Forest Mill Crook of Devon Clackmannan Road Bogside Fife Sauchie Clackmannan and Kennet Kilbagie Alva East Grange Alloa | Dollar Viaduct Blairingone Siding Dollar Beg Siding Dollar Colliery Melloch Colliery Blairingone Colliery Arndean Cutting Devonshaw Siding Devonshaw Tile Works Harvieston Solsgirth Colliery Gairney Viaduct Tourist/other Dollar Glen Castle Campbell Arndean House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /06/1960 | National Coal Board Dollar Mine Pits Nos 4 and 5 opened, to mostly serve the Kincardine Power station. |
| / /1973 | Devon Valley Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Dollar Mine to Alloa Co-op Coal Siding (excluded) closed. |
Books
 Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
