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Interior View showing part of steam winding engine
SC 685575
Description Interior View showing part of steam winding engine
Date 25/6/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685575
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Roslin Colliery & Brick Works, Midlothian This colliery was sunk in 1901-3 by the Shotts Iron Co, and produced steam and house coal. There was a steam winding engine on the downcast shaft, built by Inglis & Co, Airdrie in 1912, and a unique hydraulic winder on the upcast shaft, by MacTaggart, Scott & Co and Beckett & Anderson Ltd. This shows the right side of the Inglis engine looking towards the drums. The engine is unusual for Scotland in being fitted with twin winding drums. The engine has piston valves. It had new cylinders in 1954, but retained its original valve chests. This colliery was closed in 1969, and immediately abandoned, the surface buildings being demolished. It was one of several pits in Midlothian and East Lothian owned by Lanarkshire iron-smelting companies. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/4/37
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