View from NNE showing NCB locomotive 060T no 9 departing colliery
SC 786369
Description View from NNE showing NCB locomotive 060T no 9 departing colliery
Date 4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 786369
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bedlay Colliery, East Dunbartonshire This shows the colliery end of the branch railway linking it to the mainline system. The steam locomotive is hauling a train of coal up to the mainline. This was the last regular steam locomotive working at a Scottish colliery. The branch is about one and a quarter miles long. This locomotive was built in 1909 by Hudswell, Clarke & Co Ltd of Leeds for the Wemyss Coal Co, and worked in Fife until 1967. It is now preserved at Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge, as a static exhibit. This colliery was sunk in 1905 by William Baird & Co to mine coking coal for their Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge. After nationalisation of the coal industry the colliery was modernised in the mid-1950s, to increase output to supply the new Ravenscraig Steel Works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/30/11
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