Hillhead Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Hillhead Colliery

Description

This colliery, on the Bonnyton branch north of Kilmarnock, opened around 1872 when the mineral line to it was opened. The colliery had its own locomotive(s). Owner J Gilmour.

Tags

Colliery
08/03/2021

Chronology Dates

  /  /1872Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Hillhead Colliery branch (in north of Kilmarnock) authorised. Opened in 1872.