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Dalmellington Iron Company
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![View from No.24 of a rake of empties being delivered to Pennyvenie Colliery. The view is from the east of Pennyvenie Nos 2, 3 and 7, No 7 still being active. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/12/]](/images/56000/56071.jpg "Pennyvenie Colliery Nos 2, 3, 7")
![Off to the tip... a spoil train leaving a snowy Dunaskin washery on the Waterside complex in December 1971 heading for Cutler Tip. The loaded wagons on the right in the Cutler Sidings are awaiting collection by BR [see image 3579]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/1971]](/images/1000/1813.jpg "Dunaskin Central Washer")
![Shunting empties, No 10 in the Cutler Sidings alongside a snow covered Dunaskin Washery, Waterside, in December 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/1971]](/images/1000/1814.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![View north across fields from a lay-by on the A713 Ayr road to the west of Dalmellington in the aftermath of a snowstorm in December 1971 showing an NCB pug at Cutler Tip with a trainload of waste from the washery.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/1971]](/images/21000/21421.jpg "Cutler Tip")
![Shunting in the snow, NCB No 10 at Waterside in December 1971. The wagon marked 'For internal use' behind the locomotive is the tender.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/1971]](/images/53000/53711.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![Barclay 0-6-0T no 24, photographed at the end of a days work at Waterside in the Spring of 1972.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1972]](/images/23000/23713.jpg "Dunaskin Shed")
![Barclay Pug with loaded coal wagons performing for the camera at Minnivey, Ayrshire, in the spring of 1972. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1972]](/images/38000/38155.jpg "Minnivey")
![The sidings at Minnivey Colliery, Ayrshire, in the spring of 1972 with No 24 having a lunch break.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1972]](/images/47000/47729.jpg "Minnivey")
![Spoil train for the tip between Dunaskin and Minnivey on the Waterside complex, March 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/1000/1815.jpg "Cutler Tip")
![Coal from Pennyvenie approaching Dunaskin washery on the Waterside complex in March 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/3000/3038.jpg "Cutler Tip")
![Scene at Pennyvenie Colliery on the Waterside complex in March 1972. View from from the west of Pennyvenie Nos 2, 3 and 7, No 7 still being active.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/4000/4363.jpg "Pennyvenie Colliery Nos 2, 3, 7")
![NCB empties for Pennyvenie Colliery photographed at Minnivey in March 1972. The train is about to pass a pug waiting to head back to the washery.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/56000/56547.jpg "Minnivey")
![A spoil train at Minnivey in March 1972 being made ready for the journey to Cutler Tip.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/56000/56699.jpg "Minnivey")
![NCB No 10 at Minnivey in March 1972 with a trainload of coal destined for Dunaskin washery. [Ref query 504]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/57000/57823.jpg "Minnivey")
![Driver Tom Bruce looks on as Barclay 0-4-0ST No 10 takes on water at Dunaskin on the NCB Waterside system, on 12 August 1975. The view looks to Ayr, the location is adjacent to the shed (above and to the right) and was on the approach to the Cutler Sidings.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/08/1975]](/images/38000/38348.jpg "Dunaskin Shed")
![NCB West Ayr area Barclay no 24 simmers at Waterside in July 1977.<br><br>[Iain Robinson /07/1977]](/images/24000/24177.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![Barclay No 1 at Dunaskin, Waterside, in July 1977. <br><br>[Iain Robinson /07/1977]](/images/24000/24185.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![Driver Tom Bruce (right) and his fireman and shunter enjoy a cuppa in the bothy at the Cutler sidings on 4 July 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/07/1978]](/images/55000/55952.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![Waterside memories; the bothy at Cutler sidings closed in 1978. Ten years later, the wrecked remains of the bothy.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/55000/55961.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![The wrecked remains of the Cutler Sidings bothy in 1988. [See image 55952] for the scene ten years earlier.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/55000/55973.jpg "Cutler Sidings")
![Looking down the double track Drumgrange Incline. This inline was built to reach iron mines on the plateau in the hills to the north of Waterside where the ironworks was located. This was the second alignment of the incline there being an earlier short version. For many years for the folks who lived in the Ayrshire mining hill villages around Lethanhill this was the way in and out.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/06/2003]](/images/25000/25274.jpg "Drumgrange Incline Head")
![A bridge (over the Burnhead Burn) on the Benwhat line about two miles east of Drumgrange incline top on the old 'plateau' lines of the Dalmellington Iron Company above Waterside. These lines served a number of iron ore mines. The view looks to Benwhat with Lethanhill two miles west behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/06/2003]](/images/29000/29819.jpg "Benwhat")
![The closed, but retained, line west of Pennyvenie Colliery in 2004. Not surprisingly there's been some tree growth on the trackbed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2004]](/images/56000/56078.jpg "Pennyvenie Colliery Nos 2, 3, 7")
![Former NCB Ayrshire Area No 10 providing brake van trips at Dunaskin on the former Waterside complex on 29 June 2008. [The locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock as AB2244 in 1947.]<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/06/2008]](/images/19000/19904.jpg "Dunaskin Platform")
![The well restored Sentinel diesel locomotive (4WDH 10012/1959) at the ARPG centre, Waterside, on 6 September 2009. The locomotive was previously deployed at Killoch Colliery [see image 3527]<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/09/2009]](/images/28000/28387.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![At the Scottish Industrial Rail Centre a wee blue pug. [Railscot note: this is NCB No 25 ex of the NCB Lothian Area.] [See image 26765 for this locomotive in happier times.]<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 20/03/2010]](/images/28000/28199.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![At the Scottish Industrial Rail Centre, what on earth is this? [Railscot note: Thank you JW for your comment - 'I believe this is the entry porch which provided access to a Mk1 restaurant car (via the gangway) which in better days at Dunaskin (mid 90s, certainly) acted as a cafe.']<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 20/03/2010]](/images/28000/28209.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![At the Scottish Industrial Rail Centre, ah Johhny Walker.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 20/03/2010]](/images/28000/28221.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![At the Scottish Industrial Rail Centre, an internal use tanker, did it contain castor oil?<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 20/03/2010]](/images/28000/28227.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![At the Scottish Industrial Rail Centre, not a red kite, a grey crane.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 20/03/2010]](/images/28000/28234.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![NCB Ayr No. 10 (AB2244/1947) on the train rides duty at Dunaskin on 24 June 2012 [see image 1814].<br><br>[Colin Miller 24/06/2012]](/images/39000/39594.jpg "Dunaskin Platform")
![Inside the shed at the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group 40th Anniversary Open Day on 3 August. Seen here is the Ardrossan Shell Refinery Fireless locomotive No. 8 (Barclay 1952/1928) undergoing restoration. This was the last steam locomotive working commercially in Scotland. The Refinery closed in 1986. [See image 38050]<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48234.jpg "Dunaskin Shed")
![Rust in peace. Lineup at Dunaskin on 3 August 2014.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48242.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![Former Ardrossan Shell Refinery Fireless locomotive No. 8 (Barclay 1952/1928) at the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group on 5 April 2015 - needing a little more work. [See image 48234]<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/04/2015]](/images/50000/50884.jpg "Scottish Industrial Railway Centre")
![Outside the ARPG's shed at Dunaskin: No. 8, Barclay 0-6-0T in need of a little finishing.<br><br>[Colin Miller 17/07/2016]](/images/55000/55982.jpg "Dunaskin Shed")
![NCB No 24 climbs through Burnton loop with coal from Pennyvenie. Minnivey mine in the background. May 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/08/2016]](/images/56000/56030.jpg "Burnton Loop")
![A photo of the head of a coal hammer/pick with the inscriptions DICo and 21, given to me by an engineman at Waterside many years ago. Per David L Smith's book, could have been provided to Grant Ritchie no.21, or unrelated ...<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/08/2016]](/images/58000/58125.jpg "Dalmellington Ironworks")
