Drumchapel Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Drumchapel Colliery

Served by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.

Description

This was a Merry and Cunningham ironstone and coal colliery. It closed around 1879. Drumchapel Row was just to the north.

Probably located east of Drumchapel station on the north side of the line and approached from the west.

Tags

Mine
06/05/2019

Nearby stations
Drumchapel
Westerton
Bearsden
Drumry
Garscadden
Scotstounhill
Yoker
Hillfoot
Yoker Ferry
Scotstoun Show Yard
Anniesland
Scotstoun West
Renfrew Wharf
Clydebank East
Kelvindale
Lock 31 [FCC]
Lock 32 [FCC]
Lock 30 [FCC]
Lock 29 [FCC]
Lock 28 [FCC]
Cowdenhill Western Colliery
Blairdardie Colliery
Westerton Junction
Lock 33 [FCC]
Lock 34 [FCC]
Lock 35 [FCC]
Garscadden Siding
Garscadden Brick Works
Goodyear Factory
Lock 36 [FCC]
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Around Helensburgh (Archive Photographs: Images of Scotland)

Battrum's Guide to Helensburgh and Neighbourhood

Craigendoran and Helensburgh (East) 1897: Dumbartonshire Sheet 17.06 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Dumbartonshire)

Glasgow Railway Memories

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Helensburgh & Rhu Through Time

Helensburgh & the Rosneath Peninsula: The Guide Book: (Including Cardross, Garelochhead & Loch Long)

Helensburgh in Old Picture Postcards

Old Helensburgh, Rhu and Shandon

Rails Around Glasgow

The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)