Cummins Engine Factory
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Hillhouseridge Cotton MillCummins Engine Factory
Description
From 1956 to 1998 this was the Cummins Engine Factory. Part of the site reused a Cotton Mill which was strikingly rebuilt.
The site was rail served on its southern edge by the former Hartwoodhill Colliery Pit Nos 1 and 2 branch of the Shotts Branch (Monkland Railways).
Tags
Cotton mill;diesel engine factoryExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Shotts Hartwood Blackhall Headlesscross Davies Dykes Newmains Fauldhouse Morningside [NBR] Cleland Morningside [1st] Forrestfield Morningside [CR] Newhouse Cleland [1st] Westcraigs | Hillhouseridge Oil Works Hillhouserigg Coal and Ironstone Pit Greystonelee Colliery Baton Colliery Batonrigg Colliery Pit No 1 Hartwoodhill Colliery Pit Nos 1 and 2 Coal and Ironstone Pit Curryside Colliery Mainbank Colliery Calderhead Colliery Pit No 1 Calderhead Colliery Pit No 3 Hall Colliery Hartwoodhill Junction Shotts Loops Tourist/other Hawkwoodburn Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
