View from NNE showing shunting locomotives at colliery
SC 795605
Description View from NNE showing shunting locomotives at colliery
Date c. 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 795605
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Shunting locomotives at Bedlay Colliery, East Dunbartonshire This view was probably taken in 1968, from the south-east, and shows the two locomotives used at the colliery. The left-hand one was built in 1929 by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co Ltd, and the other by Neilson, Reid & Co Ltd in 1902. The water tank is a former egg-ended boiler. The Neilson, Reid locomotive was presented by the National Coal Board to the Scottish Railway Preservation Society in 1968, and it is now at their Bo'ness depot restores as 'Lord Roberts' of the Coltness Iron Co, for whom it was originally built. This colliery was opened in 1905 by William Baird & Co Ltd, primarily to supply coking coal for their iron-smelting works at Gartsherrie, Coatbridge. There were coke ovens at the colliery for many years. The colliery was extensively modernised in the 1950s by the National Coal Board. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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