Illawarra Colliery

aka Port Kembla No 2

1920 – 1960

Rev (1.0)

                Location: Southern flank of Mt. Kembla.

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In 1920 the Illawarra Coal Co. acquired the leases and opened the Illawarra Colliery west of Unanderra.

1922 – Illawarra Colliery opens (DoMAR 1922)

1925 – Illawarra Colliery is discontinued (DoMAR 1925)

1933 a railway siding is constructed linking it to the Government Railway, opening on November 13. By then the mine was known as the Port Kembla No. 2 Colliery.

1960 - Operations cease, purchased by AIS in 1964, becoming part of Nebo Colliery.

The railway siding was closed on May 31, 1965.

                Southern, J. N. L. 1978. A Railway History of the Illawarra.