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Valleyfield Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Valleyfield Colliery (1908-1978)

Served by the Kincardine and Dunfermline Railway (North British Railway).
Open on the Fife Coal Co Ltd.

Description

This colliery was sunk by the Fife Coal Co Ltd at a site between Culross [1st] to the west and Torryburn to the east. The mine was on the north side of the line. It was laid out with an exchange yard to the west, accessed from the east from the main line. The mine sidings were to the east of the exchange yard. To the south of the main railway were tip sidings, approached from the west.

There was a signal box (1911) to the south of the exchange yard and main line.

The box closed in 1969. The mine closed in 1978. The railway remains open, an infrequently used single track.

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Nearby stations Torryburn Culross [1st] Culross [2nd] Oakley (Fife) East Grange Cairneyhill Bo^ness Bo^ness [1st] Bogside Fife Kinneil Braeside Halt Kinneil [1st] Charlestown [1st] Charlestown Dunfermline [1st]	Torry Mine Preston Island Blairhall Colliery Coal Pit Ironstone Pit Blairhall Junction Comrie Dean Viaduct The Moat Oakley Yard Oakley Exchange Yard Oakley Sawmill Forth Iron Works Tourist/other Culross Abbey Culross Palace Comrie LC [Fife]
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1906	Fife Coal Company Construction of Valleyfield Colliery at Low Valleyfield begins.
/09/1910	Fife Coal Company Valleyfield Colliery opened.
/02/1911	Fife Coal Company Valleyfield Colliery taken deeper to reach Dunfermline splint.
/03/1911	Fife Coal Company 3 men killed in a gas explosion at Valleyfield Colliery.
/ /1930	Fife Coal Company Valleyfield Colliery re-built with new washery and screening plant.
28/09/1939	Fife Coal Company 35 men killed by gas explosion at Valleyfield Colliery.
/08/1954	National Coal Board Valleyfield Colliery no 3 pit sinking begins on reclaimed land to the south of no 1 and 2 pits. No 2 pit is re-built. Spoil is dumped on the River Forth foreshore and ultimately, combined with ash from Longannet Power Station, connects Preston Island to the mainland.
/ /1955	National Coal Board Torry Mine is opened to the north of Valleyfield Colliery to which it is connected by a tramway, partly underground in a half mile tunnel.
30/04/1964	National Coal Board Kinneil Mine is connected to Valleyfield Colliery, under the Firth of Forth. Following this, coal is brought up at Kinneil Mine.
/ /1978	National Coal Board Valleyfield Colliery closed.