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View of nos. 1 and 2 winding engine house from North West, Cardowan Colliery
SC 376875
Description View of nos. 1 and 2 winding engine house from North West, Cardowan Colliery
Catalogue Number SC 376875
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of LA 4397
Scope and Content Winding-Engine House, Cardowan Colliery, Lanarkshire Cardowan Colliery was opened in 1930 by Nimmo and Dunlop. In its heyday in 1959, its 1970 workers produced 1,550 tons of coal per day from its two shafts. It was closed in 1983 after a serious fire caused excessive levels of methane in the pit. Cables from the steam-powered winding-engines in the Winding-Engine House loop over the pulleys on the headframes to send cages up and down the shafts. The tanks are receivers for compressed air from the Compressor at the back of the Winding-Engine House. Piped steam and compressed air are often used to power coal-mining machinery because it is safer to create power away from coal dust and possible pockets of gas than to risk setting off an explosion with a spark or flame from an engine or motor. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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