View from WSW showing NCB locomotive no 24 with coal washery in background

Description View from WSW showing NCB locomotive no 24 with coal washery in background

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 766383

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Coal washery, Waterside Colliery, East Ayrshire This shows one of the larger locomotives, used to work up the valley to the Pennyvenie pits, and built in 1953 for the National Coal Board by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co Ltd. The curiously shaped chimney is the exposed part of a 'Giesl Ejector', a device used to increase the efficiency of a locomotive boiler. The coal washed here latterly came form the Pennyvenie colliery and the Minnivey Mines further up the Doon Valley. The clean, graded coal then went by rail to Ayr, much of it for shipment to Ireland. Pennyvenie was one of the best producers of house coal in Scotland. This washery was built in the early 1930s by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd to replace an unsatisfactory one installed by the Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd at Craigmark. It remained in use until deep mining in the Doon Valley ended in 1979. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/47/19

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