Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for NCB Bedlay Colliery No. 9, a 0-6-0T located in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

Another view of this Leeds built engine which worked for the Wemyss Coal Co. and the National Coal Board at Bedlay Colliery, Glenboig before preservation.

Standing in the open leads to shabby, dull paintwork and rust. Here's the effect on this loco. Notice too that the tyres are very worn.

Centre driving axle.

Trailing coupled axle and sandbox, badly corroded.

Much missing from the footplate, but still better than some.

This is the rusted up state of affairs between the frames. These are the slide bars of the inside cylinders. It seems doubtful that they have received any attention since withdrawal from service.

The same story applies to the Stephenson Link valve gear. Dry of lubricant, rusty, but at least it's complete.

A 2019 photo of the loco.

Detail of the mechanical lubricator on the running plate. Sorry condition.

The safety valves in 2019


NCB Bedlay Colliery 0-6-0T No. 9 Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, UK	Location: Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life Status: Display