/ /1801 | Shotts Iron Works Works opened. (Shotts Iron Co formed?) |
/ /1865 | Loanhead Colliery (Loanhead) Opened privately for blackband ironstone, then taken over by Shotts Iron Co, becomes coal. |
/ /1870 | Mauricewood Pit (Penicuik) Opened by Shotts Iron Co for ironstone. Gives impetus to the Penicuik Railway. |
/ /1898 | Roslin Mine (Roslin) Leased by Shotts Iron Co, known as 'The Moat'. |
/ /1921 | Clippens Company Burdiehouse Lime Works transferred to the Shotts Iron Co. |
/ /1964 | Burghlee Mine (Loanhead) Closed by National Coal Board. (Was opened by Shotts Iron Co). |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
The works and mines on the private railway.
This works is closed. The furnace bank of this early coke iron works still stands, the iron works itself closing with the creation of the National Coal Board. A water tower above the furnace bank also survives. Other parts of the works, such as brass casting, survived for longer, around 1971.
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Mines and works not located on the main works private railway
This was a lime kiln to the west of Mortonhall Pit.
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This colliery was south of Loanhead station, just west of Bilston Glen Viaduct.
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This colliery was sunk by the Shotts Iron Co. This company had a lease on the minerals in an extensive area from Cornbank to Glencorse including Eastfield.
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This mine was sunk by the Shotts Iron Co in the 1870s, originally for iron ore for the Shotts Iron Works and later coal. It was the site of a disaster, a serious pit fire, which resulted in the deaths of 63 miners. This pit disaster is considered the worst in Lothian mining history.
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Opened beside Loanhead station and also known as Loanhead Colliery and Ramsey Pit. Located on the west side of the station and approached from the north. Opened by the Shotts Iron Co. ...
More detailsOpened around 1876 by the Glasgow Iron Company and known as 'The Moat' after the farm just to the north. The company also owned the Motherwell Malleable Iron Works.
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Other associated locations including bridges made at the works.
Just west of the former Cairntows Level Crossing the closed line to St Leonards crosses the Braid Burn by a single span cast iron bridge. The bridge, cast at the Shotts Iron Works is 'B' listed.
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