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Cardowan Colliery, Interior View showing winding engine
SC 587873
Description Cardowan Colliery, Interior View showing winding engine
Date 16/5/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 587873
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cardowan Colliery, Stepps, Lanarkshire (North Lanarkshire council area) This colliery was sunk by Nimmo and Dunlop in the 1920s. It was partly re-equipped in the 1950s by the National Coal Board, to produce coking coal for the Scottish iron industry, with a new shaft and over-shaft electric winders. This view shows the cylinder end of one of the two steam winding engines installed when the pit was sunk. These were two-cylinder horizontal engines built by Marray and Paterson of Coatbank Works, Coatbridge. The colliery was a gassy one, and latterly the methane was drained from above the seam being worked, piped to the surface, and used as a fuel for the colliery boilers. When the pit closed one of the winding engines was preserved at Summerlee. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/21/1A
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