Clippens Limestone Works

Location type

Works

Names and dates

Straiton Oil Works (1866-1897)
Clippens Limestone Works (1897-1961)

Served by the Pentland and Straiton Oilworks Railway.

Description

This oil works was on the east side of the A701 in Straiton, ultimately owned by the Clippens Oil Company. The site was rail served by a branch from the Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway.

The mineral line approached from the east, from Straiton Sidings. Retorts were served and lines ran north to shale mines and the Burdiehouse Lime Works. To the west the line crossed the A701 by a level crossing to serve the Pentland Oil Works.

The site remained in use after the 1897 closure of the oil works for limestone traffic. The railway from Straiton Sidings remained in use. The limestone works was owned by the Shotts Iron Co until 1947, then by Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd. The site closed in 1961.

Little remains, other than the railway trackbed, the site is largely a retail park.

Straiton Oil Works

Tags

Oil works

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
07/03/2021


Chronology Dates

  /  /1955Glasgow Iron and Steel Co
Second Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped.
  /  /1960Shotts Iron Works
Original Straiton Oil Works locomotive scrapped.