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Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Winding Engine, Interior View showing winding engine
SC 602661
Description Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Winding Engine, Interior View showing winding engine
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 602661
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Steam winding engine, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian This large coal pit was sunk in 1890-4 by the Lothian Coal Co. It was a model colliery, designed to exploit a large coal basin, and the village of Newtongrange was laid out to house the miners and their families. The pithead buildings were substantial and carefully laid out. This shows one side of the large steam winding engine installed in 1894 for the opening of the pit. It was built by Grant Ritchie & Co, Kilmarnock, and was the largest steam winding engine in a Scottish pit. The cylinders, one of which is in the centre, are 1.06m diameter and 2.13m in stroke. Lady Victoria Colliery had only one shaft, safety provision being given by an underground link with the nearby Lingerwood Colliery. The complex closed in 1981, and was taken over by the Scottish Mining Museum, which has opened much of Lady Victoria Colliery to the public. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/384/2B
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