Seafield Colliery Remembered.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 220+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Seafield Colliery in Kirkcaldy, which opened in 1965 and closed in 1987, was supposed to have had a life of 150 years, with reserves of 60 million tons. Much of the coal was won from deep under the bed of the Firth of Forth. Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, each concrete lined and 7.3m diameter, with multi-rope electric friction winders mounted in concrete towers, each equipped with passenger lifts. No. 1 upcast, 642m deep and used for skip coal winding, No. 2 downcast, 592m deep, and used for winding men and materials (NT 2782 8961), both being equipped by ASEA of Sweden. No. 1 Shaft had two winding engines with 'Ward Leonard' control systems, each having two 15-ton skips. No. 2 shaft had a double-decked cage and counterweight, each deck accommodating up to 55 men (i.e. 110 men at a time).Work on the colliery was started on 12 May 1954 and production began in 1966.On 10 May 1973, five men were killed when a roof collapsed.Despite it being said that it had a life of 150 years, with millions of tons, much of the coal being deep under the bed of the Firth of Forth,Seafield Colliery was closed in 1988.In September 1989, the Seafield Colliery twin towers were demolished.
Darts player Jocky Wilson, was once a miner at the colliery.
The site of the former colliery has been built over and is now a housing estate.
Other Details: One of Scotland's successful superpits, and famous for its prowess at incline mining (1 in 0.8). Spontaneous combustion problems were tackled by nitrogen injection into the 'wastes extracted area. Equipped with its own dense-medium coal preparation plant. Tragic accident in 1973 when a face collapse killed five and injured four men. Linked underground with Frances by 1981. Just survived the miners strike of 1984, but closed four years later.
Two towers blown up and surface buildings cleared after closure.

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Thank you for this, my old pit👍

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Brings back a lot of memories, worked there for 17 years thanks for putting it up. 😎

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