RAILSCOT | Sillyhole Pit No 6

Sillyhole Pit No 6

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Sillyhole Pit No 6 (1855-1862)

Served by the Dalmellington Iron Company.

Description

Coal and ironstone mine, 97 fathoms deep.

Tags

Mine

Nearby stations Dalmellington Minnivey Platform Dunaskin Platform Waterside Patna [2nd] Patna [1st] Rankinston Cairntable Halt [Knockshinnoch] Holehouse Junction Sinclairston (Private) Hollybush Drongan Ochiltree Skares Dumfries House	Sillyhole Tile Works Sillyhole Coal Pit Nos 1,2,3,4,5 Dalmellington Shed Sillyhole Coal Pit Nos 1,2,3,4,5 Chalmerston No 1 Pit Bogton Mine Chalmerston No 2 Pit Burnton Washer Scottish Industrial Railway Centre [1st] Minnivey No 2 Craigmark Pit No 1 Burnton Loop Chalmerston Loading Pad Tourist/other Bogton Aerodrome Bogton Loch
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Books

A Look Back at Dalmellington

An Archaeological Field Survey at Chalmerston, Dalmellington (Occasional paper / Association of Certified Field Archaeologists)

Ayrshire and Renfrewshire's Lost Railways

Ayrshire's Last Days of Steam

Dalmellington (Pathfinder Maps)

Dalmellington Iron Company: Its Engines and Men

Dalmellington Iron Company: Its Engines and Men

Dalmellington Iron Company: Its Engines and Men

Dalmellington Iron Company: Its Engines and Men

Doon Valley Memories: Dalmellington Dunaskin Patna and District - A Pictorial Reflection

Mining, Ayrshire's Lost Industry: An Illustrated History of the Mines and Miners of Ayrshire and Upper Nithsdale

Old Dalmellington, Patna and Waterside

The Lost Mining Villages of Doon Valley: Voices and Images of Ayrshire