Dalmellington, Craigmark Mine View from SW showing wagon with another wagon in background
SC 573583
Description Dalmellington, Craigmark Mine View from SW showing wagon with another wagon in background
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573583
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Scottish Industrial Railway Centre, Minnivey, near Dalmellington, Ayrshire (East Ayrshire council area) The Minnivey Mine was driven in the early 1950s by the National Coal Board as part of a programme designed to produce coal from a number of small mines while much larger deep pits were being sunk to meet long term needs. This one closed in 1975. This view shows a wooden coal wagon on one of the sidings at the former Minnivey Mine, which were by 1981 being used by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group as a museum site. This wagon was used on the Dalmellington system. The former Dalmellington Iron Company railway lines in the Doon Valley were much valued by railway enthusiasts, and when the system finally closed in 1978 several of the locomotives and wagons were preserved, with items from other industrial systems. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H81/15/6
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