View from W showing WNW front of winding engine house with part of base of headgear in foreground

Description View from W showing WNW front of winding engine house with part of base of headgear in foreground

Date 8/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 679527

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mauchline Colliery, East Ayrshire This colliery was opened in 1925 by the Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries Ltd and produced house coal. It was purchased in 1935 by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd. It was linked to the Kilmarnock-Carlisle railway by a private branch line. This shows the No 1 shaft winding engine house, housing a steam winding engine made by the Kilmarnock Engineering Co in about 1925. In front of it are the raked lattice girders which brace the pit-head gear against the pull of the winding engine as one of the cages is hoisted up the shaftdo. This colliery was closed in 1966, probably owing to declining demand for house coal, large stocks of which were on hand in the colliery in the summer of 1966. The washery was kept on to deal with coal from the Sorn Mine until it closed in 1985. The site has now been cleared, apart from the waste heap. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/26/16

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