RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted November 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2014 I've read somewhere that the Class 40 fried it's traction motors when used for banking from Tyne Dock bottom yard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Not impossible but the 40's did the banking from South Pelaw to Leadgate which, as far as I know, was much steeper than the climb out of Tyne Dock the banking for which was often done by a lowly 08. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted November 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2014 I can recall reading somewhere that the traction motors on class 40's were modified at some point to reduce flashovers. The modified locos had a line painted underneath the number to indicate this. I'm not sure what the modification was, but I think it dates from the late 1960s. By the way I picked up a copy of the Trains Annual 1964, which has an 11-page article on Tyne Dock - Consett trains. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 By the way I picked up a copy of the Trains Annual 1964, which has an 11-page article on Tyne Dock - Consett trains. Thanks for that, I've just got a copy off eBay. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 37074 heads a torpedo wagon train at East Castle heading for Consett (photo copyright Stephen McGahon): John 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpster Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Cracking photo, that. I'd always assumed those torpedo trains would have needed to be double-headed up there. As an aside, what's that little loading conveyor down at the bottom of the fields? Arp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Yes, I always thought that the trains consisted of two locos with three torpedo's. I wondered whether that train just had two torpedo's? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted December 5, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 5, 2014 Cracking photo, that. I'd always assumed those torpedo trains would have needed to be double-headed up there. As an aside, what's that little loading conveyor down at the bottom of the fields? Arp I suppose it is being banked as well? Remains of Ironstone mine to south and west of East Castle? Closed before the war, but maybe being re-worked to recover stone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 (edited) As an aside, what's that little loading conveyor down at the bottom of the fields? Arp Part of Eden/Leadgate colliery network. There was a rope worked and creeper system of narrow gauge surface railways linking the sharts/drifts here, (Old maps OS ref NZ 147 515) with the main Colliery/washer at Leadgate. (Old maps OS ref. NZ 132 520) The area was recently opencast mined. (again) You've seen the pics but plenty of pics on Flickr. Oh and this. From a poor transparency. Do a fuller reply later. Busy at the moment. P Edited December 5, 2014 by Porcy Mane 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Porcy beat me to it - I'm told that it survived until 1980. That's the first colour photo I've seen of a torpedo wagon train... John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Another one courtesy of Stephen McGahon, 37046 leaving Consett with a steel train being banked by 08708: John 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Smashing pic that. Not very often you get to see the plate mill power station & water supply cooling tower and oil tanks. I've yet to see a phot of the rail oil tanks being unloaded but there is film of the sidings on Youtube. P Edited December 7, 2014 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Quite frightening for me to realise I took this phot 26 years ago. For those that don't know the Consett area the Ladle Car is "parked" on the old Stanhope & Tyne formation in front of the Oil Tanks seen at right in the photo in post #236. The girders are the crane supports of the Plate Mill. They stood on their own for years before eventual demolition. Sticking 54°50'22.7"N 1°50'47.1"W into google maps should take anyone interested to the ladle car and what the area looks like now. P Edited December 7, 2014 by Porcy Mane 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 (edited) A couple more pics taken on the same day as above. We've probably had a link to this film earlier in the thread but I'll put it up again just so you can see those crane supports when new. Only 29 years separated the building of the plate mill and the taking of the photographs. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Z_dAkn2RIJA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> P Edit. Hmmmm. Seems like embedding you tube videos doesn't work for me. Edited December 8, 2014 by Porcy Mane 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenw Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 We've probably had a link to this film earlier in the thread but I'll put it up again just so you can see those crane supports when new. Only 29 years separated the building of the plate mill and the taking of the photographs. Thanks, very interesting video of the mill being built... But watching it being built and to think just 20 years later it was all scrap... CRIMINAL!!! Quite frightening to realise your photos are now older than the mill actually lasted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 A shot of the last passenger train on 17 March 1984 taken from a signal at Annfield Plain: John 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Thanks, very interesting video of the mill being built... But watching it being built and to think just 20 years later it was all scrap... CRIMINAL!!! A less popular, but more accurate assessment, would be 'inevitable'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 An unknown Class 37 at Beamish heads towards Consett with a brake van on a Sunday morning in early 1980. John 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulyardave15 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 some great stuff on here folks.everytime i go doggy walking up the line i fill a doggy bag with iron ore pellets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulyardave15 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 37074 heads a torpedo wagon train at East Castle heading for Consett (photo copyright Stephen McGahon): John is this where the transformers are ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) is this where the transformers are ? Good to see you over here Dave - indeed it is and here they are. What I didn't realise when I took the photos is that part of the Eden Colliery complex, an air shaft I believe, is still there further down the hill... Edited January 3, 2015 by johndon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 (edited) What I didn't realise when I took the photos is that part of the Eden Colliery complex, an air shaft I believe, is still there further down the hill... The Shaft was capped years ago with some major remedial work being carried recently as part of the open cast mining in the area. This is the air lock door colliers walked through to access the shaft. The airlock was located to extreme left of the long low red brick building (with light coloured window surrounds) and led to the shaft top directly under the headgear wheels in this pic: https://flic.kr/p/a57dSm Probably one of the most extensively mined areas in the North East. That's why the transformer men have cap lamps. Bantling Castle colliery and sidings lay directly south by only a few yards (I think it was called Sebastopol locally[after the battle]) then East Castle Colliery came later it's shaft and sidings located only a couple of hundred yards to the East but to the North of the S&T. The "hole" of the Pontop Pike area was a warren of collieries and wagonways. P Edited to turn a spelling mistake into a pun. Edited January 4, 2015 by Porcy Mane 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulyardave15 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Good to see you over here Dave - indeed it is and here they are. What I didn't realise when I took the photos is that part of the Eden Colliery complex, an air shaft I believe, is still there further down the hill... Thanks John,very interesting blog.ive found a nation of stuff i didnt know about the line and surrounding area.im up in the beamish area tomorrow morning,having a bit rake about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 (edited) Here's what is left of the colliery just down the hill from the transformers it can be seen behind the brick building in the photo that Porcy linked to: John Edited January 6, 2015 by johndon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulyardave15 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Amazing shots John i didnt know anything at all about this.Been up Beamish today and found 3 posts with signal cable pulley wheels on.I left them next to the trackbed if your up.I was going to take one but need some rope or something to drag it up near bridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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