View of wagons at loading area of cable railway.
SC 504545
Description View of wagons at loading area of cable railway.
Date 19/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 504545
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tipperty Tile Works, Aberdeenshire This was one the last drainage-tile works in Scotland. It was founded before 1860, but largely re-equipped in the early 20th century. It had four round downdraught kilns, enclosed in a brick building. This view shows the clay-pit end of the cable-worked railway to the works Two empty wagons are being pushed round a corner on to temporary tracks leading to the working face of the pit, where they will be loaded by the excavator in the background. The works closed in 1980, and most of the buildings demolished. The 0.60m-gauge cable-worked railway linking it to the clay pit was powered by a Ruston and Hornsby horizontal diesel engine. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/230/6
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