Hill of Beath Colliery Engine Pit

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Hill of Beath Colliery Engine Pit

Served by the Hill of Beath Colliery Railway.

Nearby stations
Crossgates (Fife)
Cowdenbeath (Old)
Cowdenbeath
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Dunfermline Queen Margaret
Kelty
Lochgelly
Dunfermline (Comely Park)
Dunfermline Upper
Dunfermline City
Donibristle Platform
Dalgety Bay
Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd]
Aberdour
Rosyth
Hill of Beath Colliery West Pit
Hill of Beath Colliery Dalbeath Pit
Phoenix Foundry [Crossgates]
Hill of Beath Fireclay Works
Mouth of Day Mine (Coal)
Cuttlehill Colliery North Pit
Cuttlehill Colliery Cobden Pit
Fordell Colliery George Pit
Cowdenbeath South Junction
Alice Pit
Mossbeath Colliery
Cowdenbeath Tram Depot
Hill of Beath Washery
Cuttlehill Colliery
Fordell Colliery William Pit
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /02/1889Fife Coal Company
The Fife Coal Company buys the Hill of Beath Colliery West Pit, Hill of Beath Colliery Engine Pit and Hill of Beath Colliery Dalbeath Pit from David Adams.
  /02/1901Fife Coal Company
7 men killed by carbon monoxide in the Hill of Beath Disaster at the Hill of Beath Colliery Engine Pit. The fire which produced the gas had started in 1900.