montyburns56 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Lancaster Power Station 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2020 Christmas card material? Walkden 1967 By Gordon Edgar 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Those TV ariels (Or radio?) Just as vintage as the loco 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edge Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Wonderful pictures - they form a brilliant resource for those of us who have ambitions to model the industrial scene one day but never actually lived through the period in question 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Denbeath/Methil/Wellesley 1968 1969 1965 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted December 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2020 BAC Burntisland 1966 1968 1969 1969 This one from 1957 is a bit OT, but that water tower is amazing. 19 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOCJACOB Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Water tower is part of original Edinburgh and Northern railway works 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 More from the Wemyss Private Railway. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Earsdon junction near Backworth in 1969 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOCJACOB Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Thanks for the WPR stuff. Grandfather worked in pit, both lived adjacent to Wellesley. Met the pit Dr. Always happy to see 15 and 17 too as bring back childhood memories 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Dunaskin Washery Waterside 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Dunston Power Station 1969 1968 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Fenwick Colliery 1969 1962 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Ravensworth Park 1968 Some weathering inspiration from 1964 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Philadelphia 1966 Derwenthaugh Coking Plant 1969 1968 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Morrison Busty Yes, this was a real colliery. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 10/12/2020 at 19:31, montyburns56 said: Denbeath/Methil/Wellesley 1968 1969 1965 Love these pictures of the WPR. Especially No 20, I spent many a happy hour or two rattling up and down Springfield Yard in Falkirk in this in the mid/late seventies. Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 On 23/12/2020 at 18:46, montyburns56 said: Dunston Power Station 1969 1968 If you look carefully , you can see two groups of Shell-BP bitumen tanks at the Jobling-Purser sidings on the former Newcastle and Carlisle line. The place rejoiced in the unlikely name of 'Paradise'. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 (edited) Marley Hill Edited January 20, 2021 by montyburns56 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) Prince Of Wales Colliery, Pontefract 1968 Ackton Hall 1969 1967 1968 Edited February 4, 2021 by montyburns56 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium D.Platt Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 I have just enjoyed catching up on this thread, wonderful photos of a bygone era. I have on my layout some exchange sidings ,six in total and trip loads into it from a fiddle yard ,then out onto my main line . Could anybody give me any idea of the number of 16T wagons an average size pit would send out in a 24 hour period ? Also would there be a period during the shifts when no trips were made to the exchange sidings ? Thanks for any clues. Dennis 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 It depends on the output from the pit obviously but very few model railways have enough capacity to reach the daily production of anything but a very small one. Many pits only worked the traffic on one shift - usually the morning - and it wouldn't necessarily be the same every day. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 4 hours ago, D.Platt said: I have just enjoyed catching up on this thread, wonderful photos of a bygone era. I have on my layout some exchange sidings ,six in total and trip loads into it from a fiddle yard ,then out onto my main line . Could anybody give me any idea of the number of 16T wagons an average size pit would send out in a 24 hour period ? Also would there be a period during the shifts when no trips were made to the exchange sidings ? Thanks for any clues. Dennis Our pit (Horden) never used 16T.. they used rakes of 21T hoppers. I think they were up to 25 of them with a Q6 making a lot of noise dragging them out of the colliery yard towards Hartlepool. Apart from the two week summer holidays the trains in and out were constant - one way of finding out how many trains you need look at the weight of coal sent out per year.. then take off 2 weeks for the holidays .. divide by 48. It won't be exactly correct as the collieries also supplied "home" coal and, in Horden's case, on site coking coal for use in a coking plant. Baz 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 I was brought up with a view of the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr line, which served Cynheidre colliery; my recollection is that there were three daily workings Monday- Friday, a couple on Saturdays, and very occasionally, a Sunday working. Trains would be a mixture of 16 tonners, 21t minerals and 21t hoppers; about 20-25 wagons, equivalent to 30 16 tonners. The limiting factor was the braking power of the loco. The descent from the pit to the main line was pretty steep, and most brakes were pinned down, though this wasn't always sufficient. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium D.Platt Posted February 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2021 Thanks Baz, So Holden produced about 500 tons a day ? did the Q6 bring in the empty’s and take out it’s train load ? Is there any source of information regarding different pit outputs. Dennis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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