Easthouses Tramway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)

Introduction

This tramway connected the Easthouses Extension Pit (opened 1909) to the Lingerwood Mine and Lady Victoria Pit an endless rope was employed (a cable hauled tramway). After nationalisation the National Coal Board replaced the rope in 1949 with a balanced-rope haulage system. In 1955 the cable was dispensed with and the route partly relaid, being singled and the route altered at Easthouses and Lingerwood. Between Lingerwood and the Lady Victoria Pit the standard gauge and tramway lines were reversed, afterwards the standard gauge from Lady Victoria Pit to Lingerwood Mine running to the south of the tramway. Hunslet locomotives were purchased in 1955 to operate the system. The Lady Victoria Pit's processing area was partly rebuilt and a new receiving area for coal from the tramway built.





Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This pit was located to the north of the older Easthouses Pit. Confusingly, it is often referred to as Easthouses Pit. The pit was developed by the Lothian Coal Company and was part of the Newbattle collieries unit.
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Lothian Coal Co Ltd
Newbattle Collieries Railway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
View north towards the site of Easthouses Pit on 15 April 2021, with Broadhurst Road on the right. The wide grassy area once accommodated the original ...
John Furnevel 15/04/2021
Opened by the Lothian Coal Company in 1909, the Easthouses Extension Pit was a drift mine located on the northern edge of Newtongrange. Coal extracted ...
John Furnevel 30/09/2020
The B6482 Easthouses Road crossing the route once used by the Easthouses Tramway, seen here in September 2020, looking north towards the site of the ...
John Furnevel 10/09/2020
The B6482 underpass near the site of Easthouses pit on 10 September 2020, exactly one year on from my first visit, at which time the route had been ...
John Furnevel 10/09/2020
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One of the few surviving relics of the Easthouses Tramway, looking south at the point where it passed below Lingerwood Road, just 50 yards beyond the ...
John Furnevel 03/02/2020
Looking south from Lingerwood Junction on the Easthouses Tramway on 16 September 1969. Part of Lingerwood Pit, closed two years earlier, can be seen ...
Philip Hindley 16/09/1969
Looking north along the Easthouses Tramway in October 1971 as it passed below Lingerwood Road in the direction of Easthouses. The junction of the ...
Douglas Blades 30/10/1971
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This coal mine was opened by the Marquis of Lothian in 1798. Also known as Dicksons Pit or the Engine Pit. It may have been served by a branch or siding of the Arniston Branch (Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway), which ran south to the Newbyres Pit.
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Lothian Coal Co Ltd
Newbattle Collieries Railway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
Arniston Branch (Marquis of Lothian^s Waggonway)


The former rail route between Lady Victoria and Lingerwood Junction looking east towards the latter on 20 August 2020. A memento from operational ...
John Furnevel 20/08/2020
Hunslet narrow gauge 0-6-0 diesel mechanical No.4074 of 1955, photographed propelling a rake of loaded wagons along the Easthouses Tramway towards the ...
Philip Hindley 16/09/1969
The double track trackbed of the Easthouses Tramway looking west from near Lingerwood Mine in October 1971. The Lady Victoria Pit is in the ...
Douglas Blades 30/10/1971
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After the creation of the Lothian Coal Co Ltd this colliery was developed to be the main site in the Newbattle Collieries. Also known as Lady Victoria Pit, The Lady or the Lady Vic. The name was for Lady Victoria Alexandrina, wife of the 9th Marquess of Lothian, Schomberg Henry Kerr.
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Lothian Coal Co Ltd
Lady Victoria Colliery (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
Newbattle Collieries Railway (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
Standing alongside the junction of Main Street Newtongrange and the A7, looking south on 9 May 2021. The location of the western abutment of the old ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2021
The wide railway bridge built by the Lothian Coal Company to bring coal across the A7 and into the north side of Lady Victoria is long gone, although ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2021
Another of the information panels attached to the perimeter fence of the Scottish Mining Museum. Of particular note is the seldom photographed high ...
John Furnevel 23/05/2021
The offices of the former Lothian Coal Company, standing alongside the A7 at Newtongrange, opposite the site of the Lady Victoria Colliery. This March ...
John Furnevel 13/03/2022
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