Woodend Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Woodend Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 92516
Site Number NS96NW 7
NGR NS 921 694
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council West Lothian
- Parish Torphichen
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NS96NW 7 921 694
Visible on Ordnance Survey aerial photograph (75/134/016).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 26 February 1996.
(Location cited as NS 9220 6950). WOODEND Colliery
Location: Armadale
Previous Owners: Coltness Iron Company Limited
Types of Coal: Anthracite, House and Manufacturing
Sinking/Production Commenced: c.1870
Year Closed: 1965
Average Workforce: 397
Peak Workforce: 488
Peak Year: 1954
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, No. 5 101m deep (to Ironstone), Air Shaft 49m (to Mill Coal)
Details in 1948: Output 300 tons per day, 82,500 tons per annum, longwall working. 325 employees. 3 tables, but only 2 shakers [tables and shakers allowed the grading of coal by size and the removal of non-coal debris]. Baum-type washer (Blantyre Engineering Company) [equipment for the wet cleaning of coal]. Baths, canteen, first-aid services. All electricity AC and generated at colliery. Report dated 28-07-1948.
Other Details: The washery was built in the 1930s, but was retained after closure in 1965 to treat coal from other local mines.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
