Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 3
Location type
MineName and dates
Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 3Served by the North Monkland Railway.
Description
This pit was close to where point where the south east and south west forks, of the branch to the Drumshangie Colliery from Drumshangie Junction on the North Monkland Railway, divided.
The south east fork continued south east to reach Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 1.
The pit was closed by 1898.
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 Commonhead (Airdrie North) Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Drumgelloch [1st] Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [Leaend] Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Greenfaulds Longriggend | Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 6 Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 1 Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 9 Coal Pit Coal Pit Drumshangie Junction Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Drumshangie Colliery Pit No 10 Dykehead Pit Meikle Drumgray Mine Drumshangie Junction Coal Pit Darngarvil Colliery Sidings |
| 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 |
