Greenburn coal under the Lowther Hills

            66741 'Swanage Railway' eases towards Boig level crossing on the Greenburn branch in East Ayrshire, while working 4S84, an empty train from Doncaster for loading with Greenburn's opencast coal. 

The branch to Greenburn was re-opened in 2004 to serve the opencast mine.    However, the mine itself closed in 2018 and the site of the mine has now been landscaped and restored.   

The last remaining rail-served coal source in Scotland is nearby Killoch, which is a loading point for opencast from surviving small mines in East Ayrshire.     At the time of writing (February 2021), the last rail traffic from Killoch was in July 2020.

Taken on: February 15, 2016

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