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Dalmeny No.3 pit

Parish:
Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
City of Edinburgh
Ownership:
Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd. (1871)
Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd. (1896)
Seams worked:
Broxburn Shale
Opened:
Pre-1885
Closed:
1914
Current status of site:
Site lies beneath approach road to the Forth Bridge
Regional overview:
Mines in the Dalmeny area

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Vertical shaft

Serving Dalmeny Oil Works

The last of three pits sunk to exploit the Broxburn Shale in the vicinity of Dalmeny Oil Works, and seemingly linked to the workings of Dalmeny No. 2 Pit. Following closure, the pithead site became the terminus of the tramway serving Rosshill No. 1 & 2 Mines, and probable site of the haulage engine.

Shale-field: Queensferry and Dalmeny shale-field.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of C.1897, showing the pit head.

  • Location & workings at Dalmeny No.3 pit

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  • Newspaper references

      • Contractors wanted to sink dook and work places at No.3 Pit, Dalmeny Oil Works. Offers to be in by Saturday, the 10th inst. - For further particulars apply at the Works.

      Edinburgh Evening News, 6th January 1885

  • External references

      • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 4323, showing workings in the Main or Broxburn, Curly, New, Brushing Shales from Dalmeny No. 2 & 3 Railway mines, abandoned in 1901.
      • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 6510, showing workings in the Main or Broxburn, Curly, New, Brushing Shales from Dalmeny No. 2 & 3 Railway mines, abandoned in 1914.

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