Kepplehill Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2
Location type
MineName and dates
Kepplehill Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 (1897-1951)Served by the Shotts Branch Railway (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway).
Description
Kepplehill 1&2 (better known as Stane Colliery) was opened in 1897 by the Kepplehill Coal Company. It was transferred to the Shotts Iron Company in 1918.
The colliery had a washery.
A branch from the Shotts Branch Railway (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) served the colliery, approach was from the Shotts Goods [NB] direction.
The pits closed in 1951 but the site was not abandoned until 1955 as coal from the nearby Stane Colliery (opened 1948/49) was screened at Kepplehill.
Tags
Colliery Mine Pit| Nearby stations Blackhall Shotts Headlesscross Hartwood Davies Dykes Fauldhouse Morningside [NBR] Morningside [1st] Morningside [CR] Newmains Fauldhouse and Crofthead Stirling Road Cambusnethan Cleland Law Junction | Damside Opencast Blackhall Junction Pit Stane Colliery Shotts Iron Works Darngavel Siding Shotts East Goods Shotts Loops Hall Colliery Curryside Colliery Northfield Colliery Shotts Iron Works Reversing Spur Coal and Ironstone Pit Knowton Colliery Tourist/other Hawkwoodburn Signal Box |
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Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
