Cardowan Colliery View showing Grant Ritchie 040ST 805, 1918 with works building in background

Description Cardowan Colliery View showing Grant Ritchie 040ST 805, 1918 with works building in background

Date 16/5/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 587888

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 one of the two colliery shunting engines in use in 1966. This one was built by Grant, Ritchie and Co Ltd, Kilmarnock, and is a typical Kilmarnock-built locomotive. Note the small steel tender to provide additional coal storage. 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 H66/22/1D

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/587888

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