Bedlay Colliery View of National Coal Board locomotives at Bedlay Colliery
SC 604297
Description Bedlay Colliery View of National Coal Board locomotives at Bedlay Colliery
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 604297
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bedlay Colliery, East Dunbartonshire This colliery was sunk by William Baird & Co Ltd in 1905 to mine coking coal, and had its own coke ovens for a time. It supplied coke to the company's iron-smelting works at Gartsherrie, Coatbridge. This shows the locomotive stabling point at the colliery with the locomotive then in use. The water tank is an old 'egg-ended' boiler, a type often used in collieries. The brick structure on the left was used for drying sand for use in the locomotive sandboxes to sand the rails when they were slippery. This colliery was retained as it produced coking coal, a comparative rarity in Scotland. It survived until 1981. One of the last locomotives to be used there is now preserved at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/406/2D
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