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View looking W showing NCB locomotive Lothians area at colliery
SC 710565
Description View looking W showing NCB locomotive Lothians area at colliery
Date 2/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710565
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian This colliery was sunk in the early 1890s by the Lothian Coal Co, commencing production in 1895. It was sunk to the bottom of a large coal basin, and was the deepest pit in Scotland. It was planned for a long life and on a generous scale, using the existing Lingerwood Colliery for its second shaft. This shows a train of empty coal wagons at the south end of the extensive sidings serving the colliery. The locomotive is of a rare type, with a pair of carrying wheels behind the four driving wheels. It was built in 1908 by Grant, Ritchie & Co Ltd, Kilmarnock. The colliery closed in 1981, and was saved to become the Scottish Mining Museum. For a time it was linked with the first Scottish Mining Museum at Prestonpans, but the link was severed in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/41/7
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