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Tramway (19th Century)

Site Name Easdale

Classification Tramway (19th Century)

Canmore ID 362033

Site Number NM71NW 127.03

NGR NM 73708 17129

NGR Description linear

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/362033

Digital Images

DP 264477

Oblique aerial view from west of east side of Hill Quarry with Doune Quarry beyond, pre-1872 tramway (beside Hill Quarry) and post-1899 tramway (background).

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Historic Environment Scotland

5/10/2017

DP 264496

Oblique aerial view of Doune Quarry, post-1899 tramway with Windmill Quarry in the background.

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5/10/2017

DP 264505

Oblique aerial view showing line of original tramway and the post-1899 tramway crossing - the bridge is now gone.

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Historic Environment Scotland

5/10/2017

DP 264545

Oblique aerial view of south shoreline showing the post-1899 slate waste tipping. This slate waste was probably generated by the re-opening of Windmill and Hill quarries in the early 20th century. The line of its tramway bed is visible in the distance. The earlier Grieve's Cottage quarry is visible to the right of the waste tip in front of the white cottage.

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Historic Environment Scotland

4/10/2017

DP 264492

Oblique aerial view from east looking out to sea with post-1899 tramway, Doune Quarry waste (left) and Hill Quarry waste (top) visible.

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5/10/2017

DP 264508

Oblique aerial view showing the post-1899 tramway and the eastern edge of Windmill Quarry.

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5/10/2017

DP 264445

Oblique aerial view

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5/10/2017

DP 264485

Oblique aerial view of slate waste bing on south side of Easdale and associated with post-1899 tramway

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5/10/2017

DP 264544

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4/10/2017

DP 264571

Oblique aerial view from south

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4/10/2017

DP 264564

Oblique aerial view from east of tramway towards Windmill Quarry. This later tramway intersects with the original tramway line which served Windmill and Hill Quarries.

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4/10/2017

DP 228106

Track to south of Windmill/ Creag Na H-Uamha quarry (NM71NW 114), view from north east

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/9/2015

DP 264480

Oblique aerial view showing slate waste bing associated with the post-1899 tramway.

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Historic Environment Scotland

5/10/2017

DP 264490

Oblique aerial view showing Doune Quarry and the barrow-runs relating to Hill Quarry. Note the partially buried garden enclosure (left) which dates from after 1872 and was already partially buried by 1899 (from map evidence) and the post-1899 tramway (right).

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Historic Environment Scotland

5/10/2017

DP 264547

Oblique aerial view of south shoreline from east showing the post-1899 slate waste tipping. This slate waste was probably generated by the re-opening of Windmill and Hill quarries in the early 20th century. The line of its tramway bed is visible on the right, its overbridge now gone. The quarry at the bottom of the image is overlain by the later sate waste tipping.

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4/10/2017

DP 264549

Oblique aerial view of post-1899 tramway and slate waste tip or bing it was used to create

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4/10/2017

DP 264569

Oblique aerial view of west end of island from west.

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4/10/2017

DP 264491

Oblique aerial view showing Doune Quarry and the barrow-runs relating to Hill Quarry. Note the post-1899 tramway (right).

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5/10/2017

DP 264506

Oblique aerial view from west showing original tramway, post-1899 tramway, and the landscape towards the Village.

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5/10/2017

DP 264550

Oblique aerial view of slate waste tip or bing and the tramway that served it and part of the quarrying landscape.

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Historic Environment Scotland

4/10/2017

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Administrative Areas

Council Argyll And Bute
Parish Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Argyll And Bute
Former County Argyll

Activities

Desk Based Assessment

This tramway dates from after 1899 as it is not depicted on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, 1899, sheet CXXI.11). It probably made its appearance after the re-opening of Hill Quarry c.1902. The spoil was tipped on a spoil heap on the south of the island (NM71NW 149). The tramway covers a considerable distance and overlies earlier quarrying and garden enclosures. A small bridge (now gone) was constructed over a former tramway at NM73735 17010 to carry the tramway onto the slate waste heap or tip on the south of the island.

The tramway is in a state of disrepair with some collapse of the embankment on which it stands. This is entirely built of slate waste.

National Records Scotland: GD 112/18/18, Report on the Easdale Slate Quarries, September 1902.

Information from M. McDonald, HES, Architecture and Industry, Survey and Recording Section, 19 June 2019.

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