RAILSCOT | Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5

Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5 (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.

Aliases

Lindsay Pit Lindsay Pits Nos 4 and 5 Kelty Pits Nos 4 and 5

Nearby stations Kelty Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Blairadam Lochgelly Crossgates (Fife) Halbeath Dunfermline Queen Margaret Cardenden Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Kinross [2nd] Loch Leven Dunfermline Upper Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline City	Kelty Tramway Bridge Kelty North Junction Kelty South Junction Aitken Colliery Kelty Pit No 3 Kelty Gas Works Kelty Pit No 1 Kelty Yard Blairadam Colliery Pit No 1 Lassodie Mill Colliery Blairadam Brick Works Blairadam Colliery Pit No 2 Lumphinnans Colliery Pits Nos 11 and 12 Tourist/other Main Street Level Crossing [Kelty] Lassodie Mill Crossing
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1874	Fife Coal Company Development of Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5 begins. (Originally named Kelty 4 and 5 but renamed for company chairman William Lindsay.)
/ /1957	Fife Coal Company Explosion at Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5.
/01/1965	National Coal Board Lindsay Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5 closed.