RAILSCOT | Straiton Oil Works

/ /1866	Straiton Oil Works Opened by William Taylor and Company. About this date William Baird mines for limestone at Burdiehouse.
/ /1876	Straiton Oil Works Taken over by the Straiton Estate Company Limited
/ /1878	Straiton Oil Works Locomotive bought from Andrew Barclay and Sons, locomotive shed opened
/ /1881	Pentland Oil Works Leases taken by the Clippens Oil Company at a site by the Straiton Oil Works
/ /1882	Straiton Oil Works Sold to Midlothian Oil Company, and re-built
/ /1884	Straiton Oil Works Fire at refinery
/ /1885	Straiton Oil Works The Clippens Oil Company (Paisley) take over the Midlothian Oil Company.
/ /1885	Straiton Oil Works Fire at refinery
/ /1897	Straiton Oil Works Second locomotive bought for works
/ /1955	Glasgow Iron Company Second Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped
/ /1960	Shotts Ironworks Original Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped.
/ /1989	Straiton Lime Works Straiton Oil Works Retail park built over remains of works