Stanrigg No 1 Pit
Location type
MineName and dates
Stanrigg No 1 PitServed by the Slamannan Railway.
Description
Also spelled Standrig.
Stanrigg and Arbuckle Pit was owned by McCracken Bros and consisted of Arbuckle No 2 Pit (upcast), a downcast shaft and Stanrigg No 2 Pit (coal extraction). To the north was Stanrigg No 1 Pit on the Slamannan Railway.
This was the site of the Stanrigg Mining Disaster of the 9th July 1918. The Stanrigg Memorial commemorates the dead.
Tags
MineExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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| Nearby stations Arbuckle Whiterigg Plains Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Caldercruix Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Longriggend Rawyards Drumgelloch [1st] Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Airdrie [Leaend] | Coal Pit Old coal Pit Ironstone Pit Arbuckle No 2 Pit Arbuckle Junction Coal Pit Ironstone Pit Stanrigg No 3 Pit Stanrigg Reservoir Coal and Ironstone Pit Coal Pit Arden? Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
