General view from NW of No. 2 winding tower of covered belt-conveyors, coal preparation plant, railway sidings, rapid-loading surface bunker, and two settling ponds at far right.
SC 376628
Description General view from NW of No. 2 winding tower of covered belt-conveyors, coal preparation plant, railway sidings, rapid-loading surface bunker, and two settling ponds at far right.
Catalogue Number SC 376628
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 17680
Scope and Content Belt-conveyors, Coal Preparation Plant and Rapid Loading Surface Bunker, Monkton Hall Colliery, Midlothian Monkton Hall Colliery was sunk in 1954-67 and was one of the National Coal Board's five Scottish super-pits. Coal production reached 5,000 tons per day in 1968. Most of the output went to Cockenzie Power Station. It was closed in 1997 and then demolished. The covered belt-conveyors in the foreground carry raw coal to the Coal Preparation Plant. The furthest structure, the rapid loading surface bunker, loads most of the washed and graded coal onto railway trucks, five trucks at a time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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