Muircockhall Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Muircockhall Colliery (-1944)

Served by the West of Fife Mineral Railway.

Nearby stations
Dunfermline Queen Margaret
Halbeath
Dunfermline Upper
Dunfermline (Comely Park)
Dunfermline City
Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd]
Crossgates (Fife)
Dunfermline [1st]
Rosyth
Cowdenbeath (Old)
Cowdenbeath
Kelty
Inverkeithing
Dalgety Bay
Inverkeithing [1st]
Muircockcroft Ground Frame
Townhill Colliery Pit No 7
Lilliehill Fireclay Works
Lilliehill Upper Junction
Townhill Colliery Pit No 6
Mine
Appin Fire Clay Works
Townhill Colliery Crawford Pit
Appin Fire Clay Siding
Lilliehill Lower Junction
Muirbeath Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2
Townhill Colliery Pit No 8
Highholm Colliery Pits Nos 3,4
Lochside Siding
Tourist/other
Highholm Crossing
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /07/1943Henry Ness & Company
Muircockhall Colliery closed, becomes training site. Later associated with the Alloa Training Centre.
  /  /1958West of Fife Mineral Railway
Lassodie Junction (excluded) to Muircockhall Colliery (excluded) closed. (Approx date.)
25/02/1962West of Fife Mineral Railway
Muircockhall Colliery (latterly opencast site) to Lilliehill Junction (excluded) closed.

Books


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