Kinlochleven, Aluminuim Smelting Works, Rail Bed General View
SC 493260
Description Kinlochleven, Aluminuim Smelting Works, Rail Bed General View
Date 18/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 493260
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Route of electric railway, Kinlochleven Aluminium Works, Argyll This is an aluminium-smelting works built by the British Aluminium Co Ltd, and sited here to use hydro-electric power. Initially it received supplies of raw materials by sea, and an electric railway was built to link the works to a pier on Loch Leven. This view shows part of the trackbed of the railway, which was built to a gauge of three feet (0.91m). It closed in 1960. Aluminium is smelted by dissolving aluminium oxide in aluminium fluoride (cryolite) and passing an electric current through the molten mass, The liquid aluminium collects in the bottom of the cell, and is sucked out at regular intervals. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/101/12
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