Riggonhead Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Riggonhead CollieryServed by the North British Railway.
Description
This colliery was on the south side of the North British Railway east of Prestonpans and south of Seton House (as a result of which it was also known as Seton House Colliery). Access was controlled by Riggonhead signal box which opened in 1906.
Seton Siding was on the north side of the line, accessed from the east.
The box closed in 1924, burned down.
The site was used for large scale mining later, it became the Blindwells Opencast Disposal Site.
Riggonhead itself, a small hill with an old fort, was to the south. It was removed by the mining activity.
Tags
CollieryAliases
Seton House CollieryExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Seton Seton Mains Halt Prestonpans Macmerry Longniddry Winton Ormiston Wallyford Wallyford [1st] Pencaitland Aberlady Inveresk Crossgatehall Halt Ballencrieff Musselburgh [2nd] | Seton Siding Blindwells Opencast Disposal Site Gardiner^s Bridge Meadowmill Lye Preston Links Colliery Siding Tranent Colliery Meadowmill Mine Prestonpans Loop Tourist/other Seton House Seton Chapel Battle of Prestonpans St Germains Level Crossing St Germains House Johnnie Cope^s Hole Port Seton |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
