Dumbreck Coke Ovens View of wagons outside works buildings

Description Dumbreck Coke Ovens View of wagons outside works buildings

Date 1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 604319

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dumbreck Colliery, North Lanarkshire Opened in 1887, this was one of a group of collieries in this area sunk by William Baird & Co Ltd, primarily to supply coal to the firm's Gartsherrie iron-smelting works in Coatbridge. It closed in 1963, but the extensive washeries were retained to serve coke ovens on an adjacent site. This shows some of the wagons used to transfer washed coal from the washery to the coke ovens. These were the survivors of a large fleet used on the private railways in the area. The short line from the washery to the coke ovens was retained after the rest of the system closed. The colliery was part of an network of rail-linked pits feeding originally to a battery of beehive coke ovens, then, from World War II, to a set of by-product-recovery ovens on a site to the west of this site. The washery seen in this view served all the collieries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/409/2A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/604319

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