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This coal mine was opened just south east of Allanton by the Coltness Iron Company in 1919, producing coking and other coals. The surface buildings included a washery.

It was connected by a double track cable operated narrow gauge line to Kingshill Colliery Pit No 3 opened in 1951, to the south-south-east.

The colliery was served by a branch from the former Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway which ran west to Morningside [NB] with a branch into the Coltness Iron Works.

The branch started not far east of Castlehill Branch Junction at Davies Dyke to run north with reverse curves to the coal bunkers and beyond to a set of holding sidings (replacing a more southerly group which were removed when the narrow gauge line to Kingshill Colliery Pit No 3 opened.

After 1960, this was the only source of traffic on the former Wilsontown line.

Pit No 1 closed in 1968, the washery and No 3 continuing until 1974 when the railway closed to the washery. Complete closure for both was 1975.

The site has since been landscaped, the southern part of the railway branch is still traceable.

Kingshill Colliery Pit No 2 was further to the south east closer to Wilsontown.

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