Straiton Oil Works



Dates

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