Kaimes Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Kaimes Colliery (1870-1968)Served by the Kaimes Colliery Line.
Description
This colliery was sunk by the Eglinton Iron Co just west of the Muirkirk Iron Works in 1870. Ownership swapped to Bairds and Dalmellington Limited in 1930. It was rebuilt in the 1950s and closed in 1968. The spelling 'Kames' was also used latterly.
The colliery was to the west of Muirkirk [1st] station and the iron works to the east. The station was relocated to the east as Muirkirk [2nd] which allowed lines to be laid through the former station allowing coal trains to pass from the mine to the works without fouling the main line.
Some traces remain at the colliery site today. The colliery site and former iron works site were both cleared.
Tags
Colliery mineAliases
Kames CollieryExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Glenbuck Cairntable Halt Cronberry Inches Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Drumclog Cumnock [1st] Loudounhill New Cumnock Bankend Auchinleck | Wellwood No 1 Pit Kaimes Branch Junction Muirkirk Shed Muirkirk Tar Works Pits Pits Muirkirk Iron Works Limekilns Quarries Muirkirk GSW and CR Junction Tourist/other Kaimes Level Crossing Wellwood No 1 Pit Signal Box Muirkirk No 1 Signal Box [GSW] Macadam^s Cairn Muirkirk No 2 Signal Box [GSW] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
