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View from ENE showing trucks with central part of mine in background
SC 710481
Description View from ENE showing trucks with central part of mine in background
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710481
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Craigmark (Minnivey) Mine, Burnton, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire The Dalmellington Iron Works was opened in 1848, and closed in 1921. The surviving coal mines sunk to serve the works were sold to Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd in 1931 and were nationalised in 1947. The National Coal Board drove the Minnivey 4 and 5 mines in 1955. This shows the inclined railway emerging from one of the drift mines, to the left. The building on the gantry housed the haulage engine. A mine car can be seen emerging from the engine-house. The empty National Coal Board wagons were waiting to be filled and taken to the washery at Waterside. Minnivey Mine was intended to have a life of 40 years, but declining demand for coal led to its closure in 1975, and the dismantling of some of the surface buildings. The site is now used by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group as their depot. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/36/2
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710481
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