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Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Lady Victoria - The End.<br><br>[John Furnevel //]](/images/6000/6110.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![D8529 stands on the Waverley Line with a coal train alongside Lady Victoria Colliery, c. late 60s/early 70s. The pit officially closed in December 1971, with the last of the Claytons also withdrawn at that time. The remaining section of the Waverley route back to Millerhill finally closed in mid 1972.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/13000/13792.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View across the sidings at Lady Victoria Pit, Newtongrange, in the early 1960s towards the signal box on the west side of the Waverley main line.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/24000/24346.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north at Lady Victoria Pit signal box in May 1971. The notice marks the end of yard working and the lower part reads <I>Trains must not proceed beyond this point without the permission of the signalman at Millerhill</I>.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/05/1971]](/images/40000/40914.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The signal box at Lady Victoria Pit, seen from the east side of the Waverley Route in May 1971 when the colliery was still rail served - although not for much longer. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/05/1971]](/images/40000/40967.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The surviving section of the Waverley line passing Lady Victoria colliery, Newtongrange, in 1971. View north towards the site of Newtongrange station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/10/1971]](/images/6000/6108.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View looking north towards Edinburgh at Lady Victoria Colliery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/0/346.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View looking south at Lady Victoria Colliery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/0/347.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View north along the trackbed of the Waverley Route in 2001 with Lady Victoria Colliery (Scottish Mining Museum) in the background and the former locomotive shed on the right.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2001]](/images/32000/32572.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north along the trackbed of the Waverley route in Feb 2007 with the Lady Victoria Colliery on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel /02/2007]](/images/13000/13793.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The Waverley route trackbed looking south on 5 March from the B704 road bridge near the junction for the former Lady Victoria Colliery. View is towards Gorebridge, with Newtongrange around half a mile behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33142.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north along the Waverley trackbed on 14 August in the direction of Newtongrange. The bridge on the right spanned the lines serving the Lady Victoria Colliery, which can be seen in the distance.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 14/08/2012]](/images/39000/39968.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north during the evening of 14 August with the Waverley route on the left and the headgear of the Lady Victoria pit glinting in the evening sun. The Lady Victoria Colliery signal box formerly stood on the left hand side of the cutting close to here [see image 6108].<br><br>[Mark Poustie 14/08/2012]](/images/39000/39975.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north over the solum of the Borders Railway towards what is now the Scottish Mining Museum at Newtongrange on 9th October 2012. The museum will potentially be a significant generator of traffic for the railway, but the public path currently occupying the solum will - here and on other stretches - be diverted to less satisfactory on-road replacement routes.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40800.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![What has surely become the most photographed derelict platelayer's hut in Britain. Scene just south of Lady Victoria Colliery on 12 April 2013. View along the Waverley trackbed towards Gorebridge from the B704 road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2013]](/images/42000/42708.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The cleared Waverley trackbed looking north from Lady Victoria Colliery towards the site of Newtongrange station in the distance on 12 April 2013. View from the B704 road. [See image 6108].<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2013]](/images/42000/42753.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking south along the Waverley trackbed towards Gorebridge on 6 August 2013, with the site of Lady Victoria Colliery behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/08/2013]](/images/44000/44131.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Work being carried out on the trackbed near the former Lady Victoria Colliery on 27 September 2013. The site of the planned Newtongrange station is in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/2013]](/images/44000/44785.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View south from the B704 towards Arniston and Gorebridge on 17 November 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/11/2013]](/images/45000/45357.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The trackbed running past Lady Victoria towards Newtongrange on 22 February. The bridge carrying the A7 Murderdean Road stands in the background with the houses of Station Road beyond. The new station site is on this side of the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46430.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The end. The old platelayer's hut that stood just south of Lady Victoria Pit reduced to flat-pack form on 22 February 2014. View south towards Gorebridge. [See image 42708]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46431.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View south along the Borders Railway trackbed from the B704 road bridge towards Arniston on 17 July 2014, with the Lady Victoria site behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2014]](/images/48000/48044.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Waverley trackbed alongside the Lady Victoria site on 30 August 2014, with Newtongrange station taking shape this side of the A7 road bridge in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2014]](/images/48000/48536.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north to the former Lady Victoria Colliery (now the Scottish Mining Museum) on 27 October, with Newtongrange station in the background. The tanker lorry is parked on what was the NCB loco shed yard, with the shed itself surviving on the right in industrial use.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/10/2014]](/images/49000/49232.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![A track machine heading south past the former Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, on 6th November 2014 [see Image 40800].<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49362.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![158722 and 158733 pass the site of Lady Victoria Pit signalbox with the 12.11 from Edinburgh to Tweedbank. The colliery is now the Scottish Mining Museum and the old loco shed is on the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/09/2015]](/images/52000/52755.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![ScotRail 158735 has just passed the Scottish Mining Museum on the site of the former Lady Victoria Colliery with a Sunday morning service to Tweedbank. View is south from the B704 road bridge on 24 April 2016. The road here originally spanned both the Waverley route and several colliery lines, with the area on the left once housing a yard and loading plant [see image 6115]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2016]](/images/54000/54963.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The 0945 (Sunday) ex-Tweedbank slows for the Newtongrange stop during a wet and blustery morning on 19 March 2017. The building on the right once served as the NCB Lady Victoria Colliery locomotive shed [see image 6114].<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/03/2017]](/images/58000/58547.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![A 4-car DMU on a Tweedbank – Edinburgh service about to pass below the bridge carrying the B704 road as it approaches the Newtongrange stop on 9 July 2017. The photograph was taken from the roadside 100m west of the bridge. The wood in the background stands on the site of the loading area and sidings that once served Lady Victoria Pit. [See image 6116] [Ref query 1096]<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2017]](/images/60000/60021.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![ScotRail 170418 runs south towards Gorebridge shortly after leaving Newtongrange on 21 January 2018. The train is passing the industrial site occupying the yard that once served Lady Victoria Colliery, with the old NCB locomotive shed still standing on the extreme right [see image 6114]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/12/2018]](/images/62000/62655.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
