Welltrees Mine No 3
Location type
MineName and dates
Welltrees Mine No 3 (1848-1867)Served by the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
Welltrees was on the east side of the Welltrees Burn. It was served by a short branch from Welltrees Siding on the Muirkirk line which ran south beside the east bank of the Welltrees burn.
The mine was already long closed by the time of the 1867 accident at Welltrees Siding. The branch was used to store surfacemen's bogies.
Tags
Mine coalExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
10/09/2018
| Nearby stations Cairntable Halt Cronberry Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Auchinleck New Cumnock Catrine Dumfries House Skares Ochiltree Glenbuck | Welltrees Mine No 4 Gasswater Barytes Loading Pad Gasswater Pit (Coal) Cairnhill 1,2 Mine Welltrees Siding Stonebriggs Pit No 2 Gasswater Lime Works Carbellow Ironstone Pit No 3 Dalfad Pit Cronberry Crossing Cronberry Moor Mine Powharnal Opencast Wellwood Shed Tourist/other Stonebriggs Signal Box Wellwood Signal Box [2nd] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
