View looking NNW showing NCB locomotive Lothians area number 2 with wheels in foreground

Description View looking NNW showing NCB locomotive Lothians area number 2 with wheels in foreground

Date 2/7/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710576

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Central Workshops, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian These workshops were initially established in the 1890s by the Lothian Coal Co, and were greatly expanded by the National Coal Board in the 1950s as their central workshops for their collieries in the Lothians. The workshop buildings are steel-framed and clad with corrugated asbestos. This shows part of the yard off the works with one of the three steam locomotives store there at the time, and some wheel sets from other locomotives in the foreground. This locomotive was originally built by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock and rebuilt in 1931 here by the Lothian Coal Co. These workshops were closed in the 1980s with the run-down of the coal industry. The buildings were acquired in the 1990s by the Scottish Mining Museum and partly demolished. The rest of the complex is let for a variety of uses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/41/16

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710576

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