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Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Winding Engine, Interior View showing winding engine
SC 602663
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 602663
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content 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 the left side of the winding engine, built in 1894 by Grant Ritchie & Co. The left-hand cylinder, 1.06m in diameter, with a stroke of 2.13m, is on the left, with the valve chests at the side. The valve gear is of the Cornish drop type, in which the valves move up and down to open and close. 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 H67/384/2C
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