View showing colliery waste wagons
SC 681092
Description View showing colliery waste wagons
Date 8/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 681092
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, East Ayrshire This colliery was sunk in 1940-4 by the New Cumnock Coal Co, and produced house and steam coal. It was a model colliery, but achieved notoriety in 1947, when an exploratory mine broke into a peat bog, killing 13 men and trapping 116 underground. This shows a train of the side-tipping wagons used at the colliery for the disposal of colliery waste - the stone brought up with the coal, or removed during the driving of underground roadways. These wagons tipped their contents on to boggy ground near the colliery. Until the late 1950s the normal way to dump colliery waste was on a conical bing, with an inclined railway to its (moving) summit. This occupied the smallest area of ground for a given volume of waste. It was safer and easier to form flat-topped waste-heaps that could be formed from wagons like these. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/31/2
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