Colliery Winding Engine
Museum
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Date
1924
Title

Colliery Winding Engine

Object Category
Industrial History
Object Name
Colliery Winding Engine
Description

This steam engine hauled men and coal up and down the mineshaft at Cardowan Colliery in Stepps, North Lanarkshire. It was built at Murray and Paterson's Engineering Works in Coatbridge. Sunk in 1924, Cardowan Colliery produced coal which fuelled the ovens in local ironworks, including Ravenscraig. Cardowan was a very gassy pit and the methane produced was tapped to supply the neighbouring whisky bottling plant. 

Method
Donation
Location
On working display at Summerlee Museum