Wellwood Pit
Location type
MineName and dates
Wellwood Pit (1878-1927)Served by the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This pit was to the south of the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway). Access to the pit was by reversal from a siding controlled by Wellwood Siding Signal Box.
The area was obliterated by the Powharnal Opencast development.
Tags
MineExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Cairntable Halt Cronberry Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Glenbuck Cumnock [1st] Auchinleck New Cumnock Catrine Loudounhill Drumclog Dumfries House | Powharnal Opencast Extension Wellwood Iron stone mine Wellwood Pits Powharnal Row Powharnal Drift Mine Wellwood Opencast Disposal Centre Sidings Powharnal Opencast Tarrioch Iron Works Wellwood Shed Pits Pits Wellwood No 1 Pit Tourist/other Wellwood Siding Signal Box Wellwood Signal Box [2nd] Wellwood No 1 Pit Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
