Coltness Iron Company No.1

This was some footage taken at my local Heritage railway the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, NCB No.1 Coltness Iron Company seen here shunting Dmu 117 to the bay platform and then doing the daily service train with Diesel Locomotive Class 26038 Tom Clift.Then a short visit to the Bo'ness railway engineering building to catch up with the steam guys Coltness Iron Company No.1 some history :- Built by Neilson Reid of Glasgow in 1899 and sold to the Coltness Iron Co in 1902. The locomotive was sold to the Coltness Iron Co., of Newmains, Lanarkshire, in 1902. The Coltness Iron Company were coal and iron masters, who also made steel. Their iron and steel business later declined and the company concentrated on coal mining at Kingshill and Overtown in Lanarkshire. Newmains became a cement works. The National Coal Board (NCB) bought No. 1 in 1955, along with other Coltness Iron Company assets. Allocated to NCB Central West area, it was based at Twechar, near Kilsyth, and worked at Bedlay Colliery. It was withdrawn in 1968 following breakage of a crosshead. Donated by the NCB, the locomotive was delivered by goods train to the SRPS Falkirk Depot.