Kaimes Quarry

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Kaimes Quarry


Chronology Dates

  /  /1989Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway)
The City of Edinburgh buys 13 bogie wagons for the rubbish carrying service from Powderhall to Kaimes Quarry, the 'binliner'. Powderhall to Piershill Junction re-opened to freight for refuse trains traffic.
29/08/1997Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway)
With Kaimes Quarry full the rubbish carrying service from Powderhall was changed to Oxwellmains Quarry, the landfill site operated by Viridor Waste Management.