Lady Victoria Colliery (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)





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Lady Victoria Colliery was served by a large yard and sidings warranting their own signal box. A major expansion of the Newbattle Colliery led to a new connection and exchange sidings being laid out on the east side of the Waverley Route. The whole scheme was built on a grand scale and included the new village of Newtongrange, to the north. The pit was named for Lady Victoria Alexandrina, ...

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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Lothian Lines (North British Railway)
The 0947 (Sunday) Tweedbank - Edinburgh approaching Newtongrange on 16 August 2019. The train is about to run below the B704 road bridge and past the ...
John Furnevel 16/08/2020
A Sunday morning service on the Borders Railway heading for Tweedbank on 22 May 2022. The train is approaching the B794 road bridge half a mile south ...
John Furnevel 22/05/2022
The trackbed of the Waverley Route as it was in March 2007, seen here looking north from the B704 road bridge towards the site of Newtongrange ...
John Furnevel 29/03/2007
Interior of Lady Victoria Pit signalbox in 1973 after all track lifted.
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Bill Roberton //1973
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Grant Ritchie saddle tank 536 of 1914 stored inside Lady Victoria Colliery engine shed
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Bill Roberton //1973
The refurbished NCB locomotive shed at the former Lady Victoria pit on 24 July 2014. Now part of an industrial site, but with trains now passing by ...
John Furnevel 24/07/2015
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After 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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Lothian Coal Co Ltd
Newbattle Collieries Railway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
Easthouses Tramway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
NCB 7-plank wagons await scrapping in the last sidings at Lady Victoria Colliery in 1973.
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Bill Roberton //1973
Standing alongside the junction of Main Street Newtongrange and the A7, looking south on 9 May 2021. The location of the western abutment of the old ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2021
The wide railway bridge built by the Lothian Coal Company to bring coal across the A7 and into the north side of Lady Victoria is long gone, although ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2021
Another of the information panels attached to the perimeter fence of the Scottish Mining Museum. Of particular note is the seldom photographed high ...
John Furnevel 23/05/2021
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