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Buchanan Street Station 1960. Buchanan Street Tunnel 1960. Buckingham Junction 1919. Carmyle Junction 1952. Carsebreck 1905. Cathcart West Junction c1920. Clarkston 1955. Coalburn 1893. Connel Ferry West 1946.
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These three electric coke oven locos were out of use at BSC Ravenscraig on 23rd May 1994. Coke oven locos were specially built with high cabs so that the driver could see over the coke oven car. Does anyone know which company manufactured them or what their makers
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Built in the 1950s and early 60s Ravenscraig was Scotland s biggest and most advanced steelworks. The hot strip mill which opened in 1962 was the largest in western Europe. This roll-up vinyl plan probably came from the Lecture Theatre building which you can see near the bottom of the plan.
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Ravenscraig Steel Works Works opened by Colvilles Ltd at a cost of £20 000 000 with 2 batteries of 35 coke ovens a blast furnace and melting shop with 3 furnaces. Colvilles Ltd
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These three electric coke oven locos were out of use at BSC Ravenscraig on 23rd May 1994. Coke oven locos were specially built with high cabs so that the driver could see over the coke oven car. Does anyone know which company manufactured them or what their makers
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Oct 18 2016 · From memory by 1970 only Kingshill Cardowan and Bedlay pits remained and as far as I can recall almost all output went to Ravenscraig. Don t know about Opencasts. During winters my primary school central heating system was hot water radiators heated by 2 coke-fired furnaces. After the summer close period the coke was fired using Anthracite
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Jan 01 1993 · Products Area Capacity Source of raw materials Coke ovens Blast furnaces Steel works 600 ha 2.2 million tlyear Iron ore by ship to Cijon coal by rail and conveyer from El Musel. 45 in 2 batteries. Production capacity of 1.05 million tlyear. 2 Continuous conventional casting and rolling mills.
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View of gas holders and cooling towers at Ravenscraig Motherwell from S. 12/1990 Item Level Photographs and Off-line Digital Images H 89703 CS W Black Oblique aerial view of Ravenscraig Steelworks Motherwell taken from the S 10/1974 Item Level On-line Digital Images DP 048376 Aerofilms Ravenscraig powerstation oblique aerial
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Jan 01 1993 · Products Area Capacity Source of raw materials Coke ovens Blast furnaces Steel works 600 ha 2.2 million tlyear Iron ore by ship to Cijon coal by rail and conveyer from El Musel. 45 in 2 batteries. Production capacity of 1.05 million tlyear. 2 Continuous conventional casting and rolling mills.
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Aug 14 2013 · 4 X 125 000 lb/hr (1954) and 1 x 200 000 lb/hr (1959) blast furnace gas/coke oven gas/oil fired Babcock Wilcox bi-drum units. Stop valve conditions of 420 psig at 820°F. Automatic temperature and combustion control. I believe there were 2 more waste heat boilers added in 1960 and another blast furnace gas/coke oven gas/oil fired unit in 1973.
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South Bank Coke ovens near Middlesbrough north east England. UK. The coke ovens closed in Sept. 2015 Landascape with Industry plant. National The memorial was sited at Ravenscraig in Lanarkshire on the site of Europe s largest former hot strip mill which closed in 1992. National Museum of Industrial History Bethlehem Pennsylvania
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Ravenscraig the Coke Ovens. CultureNL is a trading name of Culture and Leisure NL Ltd. Culture and Leisure NL Ltd is a registered Scottish charity. Charity number SCO 43891. Tweets by NL_Heritage. NorthLan Heritage 17 hours ago. RT CNLlearning We never thought we would be talking about burps in the museum
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The facilities at Ravenscraig and Llanwern were developed from existing privately owned works in the late 1950 s and largely duplicated each other. Ravenscraig was partly funded by the government who wanted it to supply steel to the then booming ship building industries of the Clyde and Northern Ireland.
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John Musgrave Sons (450 words) exact match in snippet view article find links to article was founded in 1839 by John Musgrave and his son Joseph at the Globe Ironworks in Bolton historically in Lancashire England 1854 the company supplied
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Mar 23 1973 · All three were sold (Harry Needle rings a bell) who collected 62 which I believe is at a quarry now. 61 and 63 were parked up at the back of Appleby Coke Ovens rather poignantly as the embankment they were by was the old boundary between the AF and RTB works.
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Note the brake cylinder above the drum with the brake shoes on either side. This colliery was kept working because it produced coking coal used in the coke ovens at Clyde Iron Works and at Ravenscraig. It closed in the mid 1980s. One of the winding engines was saved and is now at Summerlee Industrial Museum. Source RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Aug 14 2013 · The Hidden Glasgow Forums • View topicRavenscraig. Re Ravenscraig. Sat Feb 25 2012 5 02 pm. Power station technical details. The power station was the control centre for all power and fuel distribution throughout the works. BOILER PLANT. 4 X 125 000 lb/hr (1954) and 1 x 200 000 lb/hr (1959) blast furnace gas/coke oven gas/oil fired
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In 1954 the first stages of development began in Ravenscraig turning a green field near Glasgow into a site for steelworks. By 1957 several coke ovens a by-products plant a blast furnace and an open hearth melting shop with three steelmaking furnaces were built and by 1959 a stripmill was complete.
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This colliery was kept working because it produced coking coal used in the coke ovens at Clyde Iron Works and at Ravenscraig. It closed in the mid 1980s. One of the winding engines was saved and is now at Summerlee Industrial Museum. Source RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Paul later went back to the steel works working at Ravenscraig at the coke ovens. As furnaces are made from brick they eventually cracked and weakened and had to be rebuilt. So the ovens were knocked down to the ground and rebuilt using special brick high in silicon imported from Holland.
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Jan 14 2008 · Steelworks in Scotland Clydebridge Steelworks Glasgow Ravenscraig steel North Lanarkshire more than likely and I have missed a few which can be purchased at Cefn Coed Colliery Museum showing every works and colliery working in 1921. Morfa coke ovens at the moment is consistently producing 18 300 t of coke per week we (myself included
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Donald Oliver also began his working life on the Coke Ovens at Ravenscraig this time in he 1980s. He recalled the consequences of workers rushing to finish their shift early. He also regarded one particularly unpleasant job as a kind of rite-of-passage leading to acceptance by his fellow workers.
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British Steel Industry Plant _ Coke Ovens Sooke Regional Museum Sooke British Columbia Canada making steel in Tata Corus Llanwern The memorial was sited at Ravenscraig in Lanarkshire on the site of Europe s largest former hot strip mill which closed in 1992. The site was cleared in 1996 and now houses a sports centre college and
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These were partly fired by methane gas extracted from the rock above the coal seam and partly by oil. This colliery was kept working because it produced coking coal used in the coke ovens at Clyde Iron Works and at Ravenscraig. It closed in the mid 1980s. One of the winding engines was saved and is now at Summerlee Industrial Museum.
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