Lindsay Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Lindsay Colliery (1873-1965)Served by the West of Fife Mineral Railway.
Open on the Fife Coal Co Ltd.
Description
This was a Fife Coal Co Ltd pit. It was located on the east side of the West of Fife Mineral Railway in the east of the village of Kelty and south of Kelty North Junction. This railway was a single track minerals line which ran south to Townhill and Dunfermline.
Access to the pit sidings was via a scissors.
A signal box was built here in 1948, but not opened. (Probably west side of the line and south of the scissors.) The mine was substantially rebuilt around 1946 with further surface facilities being added into the 1950s. Further exchange sidings were laid. Tips covered a large area to the east of the mine.
Nearby Kelty Disposal Point, a Second World War development, was to the south and, to the north, Kelty yard was improved in the early 1950s.
The site has been landscaped.
Tags
Colliery mine pitAliases
Lindsay Pit Lindsay Pits Nos 4 and 5 Kelty Pits Nos 4 and 5Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series) |  Fife's Lost Railways |  Railways of Fife |  The Railways of Fife |
