This tramway connected the Easthouses Extension Pit (opened 1909) to the Lingerwood Mine and Lady Victoria Pit an endless rope was employed (a cable hauled tramway). After nationalisation the National Coal Board replaced the rope in 1949 with a balanced-rope haulage system. In 1955 the cable was dispensed with and the route partly relaid, being singled and the route altered at Easthouses and Lingerwood. Between Lingerwood and the Lady Victoria Pit the standard gauge and tramway lines were reversed, afterwards the standard gauge from Lady Victoria Pit to Lingerwood Mine running to the south of the tramway. Hunslet locomotives were purchased in 1955 to operate the system. The Lady Victoria Pit's processing area was partly rebuilt and a new receiving area for coal from the tramway built.
These locations are along the line.
This pit was located to the north of the older Easthouses Pit. Confusingly, it is often referred to as Easthouses Pit. The pit was developed by the Lothian Coal Company and was part of the Newbattle collieries unit.
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More detailsThis coal mine was opened by the Marquis of Lothian in 1798. Also known as Dicksons Pit or the Engine Pit. It may have been served by a branch or siding of the Arniston Branch (Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway), which ran south to the Newbyres Pit.
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More detailsAfter the creation of the Lothian Coal Co Ltd this colliery was developed to be the main site in the Newbattle Collieries. Also known as Lady Victoria Pit, The Lady or the Lady Vic. The name was for Lady Victoria Alexandrina, wife of the 9th Marquess of Lothian, Schomberg Henry Kerr.
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