steelergraham

Have you tried Durham County Councils records office? They have sorts stashed away. Another place might be Darlington'S Head of Steam as they have a couple of NER collections. Last thought is the reference section at the NRM in York.

It’s been quiet on Vine Street depot in the last few weeks with all the progress being on other parts of the layout. Here’s a couple of shots

I had always been a 50's and 60's era modeller with none of those `nasty diesels' However my childhood was spent next to the Midland mainline between Beighton and Kilamarsh between Sheffield and Chesterfield. My childhood memories are of Peaks and 47's, double headed class 20's on coal trains from Spinkhill Colliery, and the odd class 56's from Worksop. When I recently sold the long term resident of my Garage, an 1970's era MGB, I suddenly had an empty space. At the time I had been toying with the idea of converting my large steam era loft layout to DCC, but knew little about it. So I thought I would build a little DCC plank shunting layout in the garage to practice the techniques and principles for DCC. But I needed a DCC loco to practice with, and my local retailer had an old Mainline class 45, that he let me have at a steal of £5! a couple of bits from eBay, a lesson in hardwiring chips and Halfway was born! It now runs around 3 sides of the garage, (would be 4 but the wife's horsey stuff occupies that side, and god forbid that I encroached!) Has 20 locos, half of which are DCC sound, and I am hooked on the blue era all over again!