Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 1
Location type
MineName and dates
Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 1Served by the North Monkland Railway.
Description
This pit was at the end of the south east fork of the branch to the Drumshangie Colliery from Drumshangie Junction on the North Monkland Railway.
A tramway linked it to Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 11.
The pit was closed by 1910.
Much of the area has been opencast and although the junction site still exists the branch and colliery site is largely obliterated.
Tags
MineExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
05/01/2018
| Nearby stations Arbuckle Whiterigg Rawyards Plains Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Commonhead (Airdrie North) Drumgelloch [1st] Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [Leaend] Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Caldercruix Longriggend | Coal Pit Coal Pit Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 3 Coal Pit Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 6 Coal Pit Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 9 Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 10 Coal Pit Dykehead Pit Darngarvil Colliery Sidings Whiterigg Colliery Pit No 1 Drumshangie Junction Drumshangie Junction Whiterig Brick and Tile Works |
| 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) | The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways |
