Eddlewood Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Eddlewood Colliery (1895-1932)Served by the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway.
| Nearby stations Meikle Earnock Halt Quarter Junction Hamilton Central Quarter Peacock Cross Hamilton [NBR] Hamilton West Ferniegair [1st] Ferniegair [2nd] Chatelherault Ferniegair [3rd] Burnbank Merryton Airbles Blantyre Foundry | Eddlewood Junction Yard Neilsland Colliery Cadzow Colliery Eddlewood Junction Cadzow Engineering Works Fairhill Colliery Quarter Iron Works Junction Quarter Collieries No 8 Pit Quarter Collieries No 7 Pit Earnock Junction Quarter Collieries No 6 Pit Hamilton Gasworks Fairholm Siding Bent Colliery Quarter Iron Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1884 | Harry Lauder Started working at Eddlewood Colliery (he was to work as a miner for 10 years). |
| 26/04/1916 | Neilsland Colliery (Hamilton) Five miners killed by an inrush of water and material at the John Watson Ltd owned colliery from the closed neighbouring Eddlewood Colliery. |
