Clippens Limestone Works
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Straiton Oil Works (1866-1897)Clippens Limestone Works (1897-1961)
Served by the Pentland and Straiton Oilworks Railway.
Description
This oil works was on the east side of the A701 in Straiton, ultimately owned by the Clippens Oil Company. The site was rail served by a branch from the Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway.
The mineral line approached from the east, from Straiton Sidings. Retorts were served and lines ran north to shale mines and the Burdiehouse Lime Works. To the west the line crossed the A701 by a level crossing to serve the Pentland Oil Works.
The site remained in use after the 1897 closure of the oil works for limestone traffic. The railway from Straiton Sidings remained in use. The limestone works was owned by the Shotts Iron Co until 1947, then by Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd. The site closed in 1961.
Little remains, other than the railway trackbed, the site is largely a retail park.
Straiton Oil Works
Tags
Oil worksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
07/03/2021
| Nearby stations Loanhead Polton Roslin Lasswade Gilmerton Broomieknowe Rosewell and Hawthornden Bonnyrigg Rosslyn Castle Rosslynlee Sheriffhall [1st] Sheriffhall [2nd] Eskbank and Dalkeith Eskbank Blackford Hill | Shale Pit Pentland Oil Works Shale Pit Straiton Sidings Straiton Limeworks Eldin Chemical Works Burdiehouse Lime Works Edgefield Weighs Cabin Mortonhall Pit Ramsey Colliery Bilston Glen Colliery Burghlee Ground Frame Burghlee Colliery Bilston Glen Viaduct Tourist/other Mavisbank House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1955 | Glasgow Iron and Steel Co Second Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped. |
| / /1960 | Shotts Iron Works Original Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped. |
