pete55 Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Pete, 10th April 1965. About 17:37 if memory serves. All the photographs/negs/transparencies of the late Mr Davies are "in trust". P Cheers for that Porcy.......make an interesting scenario when we get done!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Cheers for that Porcy.......make an interesting scenario when we get done!! I trust progress is good? John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Two new shots from a new contributor to my site, John Atkinson who was based at Tyne Yard and traversed the Consett line many times. First up 37094: http://southpelawjunction.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/37094-9P32-1320-SIGN-ON-TWO-TRIPS-TO-CONSETT-AT-CONSETT-LOW-YARD-19-9-78-John-Atkinson.jpg Secondly, and rather unusually for the line, a 47 47311 (this is only the second photo I've ever seen of a 47 on the line and the only only prior to closure): http://southpelawjunction.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/47311-9P31-Consett-low-yard-21-2-79-The-snow-did-not-stay-white-for-long-up-there-John-Atkinson.jpg John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Cheers for that Porcy.......make an interesting scenario when we get done!! Didn't think you'd be going that late? So might we see some diesels? You could create this blockade with a very youthful looking member of your team taking centre stage. http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/show/3787/MMRTC P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Very interesting thread here... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete55 Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Didn't think you'd be going that late? So might we see some diesels? You could create this blockade with a very youthful looking member of your team taking centre stage. http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/show/3787/MMRTC P Every possibility there could be a diesel or two........and didn't realise Mark was ever that young!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O. Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Re the 9F charter.... 1965... Don't know how I got 1953. Cheers, Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Two new shots from a new contributor to my site, John Atkinson who was based at Tyne Yard and traversed the Consett line many times. First up 37094: http://southpelawjunction.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/37094-9P32-1320-SIGN-ON-TWO-TRIPS-TO-CONSETT-AT-CONSETT-LOW-YARD-19-9-78-John-Atkinson.jpg Secondly, and rather unusually for the line, a 47 47311 (this is only the second photo I've ever seen of a 47 on the line and the only only prior to closure): http://southpelawjunction.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/47311-9P31-Consett-low-yard-21-2-79-The-snow-did-not-stay-white-for-long-up-there-John-Atkinson.jpg John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 It is 32 years ago today that the last passenger train ran to Consett and, to commemorate the event here are three new, superb, pics from Stephen McGahon: First up 46026 runs round it's train at Consett: An overall view of the station, not the old coal drops in the foreground: And last but certainly not least, the train rounding Brooms Curve: John 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Three superb, if rather depressing photos from Stephen McGahon taken on the day (25 September 1984) that Consett lost it's connection to the rest of the rail network as 37270 leads the final train to leave Consett with the track, literally, being lifted up from behind the train as it passed... John 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Villa Real, never to be the same again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Villa Real, never to be the same again. Completely unrecognisable these days, even more so when the bridge at Leadgate comes down... John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 18, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2016 Is the DJH Models place down there somewhere? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Just off pic to the left of the second pic. A couple of hundred yards behind the bus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raised On Steam Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Is Leadgate bridge still standing? I haven't been up there since I cycled past it last autumn. Would that bus garage be the old Venture depot? I was working for Northern buses at the central works about the time those pics were taken and a couple of the blokes there were ex Venture and not long transferred down from Consett. Both called Davey I seem to remember. Much like in railways the old loyalties died hard and they were both Venture men forever ha ha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Leadgate bridge was still standing on Monday although it was due to come down last week. I've got an office just behind the DJH factory so I drive past the bridge on the way to the office. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Just to the right of the Leadgate bridge in the second photo is the old NCB shed which is still in use and, once the bridge has gone, it will be just about the last structure in the area that had anything to do with the railway... John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Another wonderfully depressing photo from Stephen McGahon, BSc Consett works Sentinel shunter No. 41 brings wagons of scrap from the demolition of the steelworks towards Consett Low Yard where a BR Class 37 will take over for the onward journey. June 1983. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 The tall structures standing right of centre are the blast furnace stoves, used to heat the incoming blast. There would have been three per furnace so nine in total. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Not a great photo, scanned from a small, grainy original it shows the Consett blast furnaces around 1950 from a similar angle. The three stoves serving the closest furnace are clearly seen. They had been rebuilt one by one during the 40's and 50's starting with the No.2 furnace in 1942 by Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co. of Stockton on Tees, by then the country's leading blast furnace contractor. By the standards of modern post war furnaces, generally with hearths around 25', they were relatively modest in size with hearths around 20' diameter. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Unloading Iron Ore at Consett Steel Works by Tony Lambert, on Flickr 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 The bridge at Leadgate is finally coming down... John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raised On Steam Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) The like I put on your post was a 'sad day' like. In happier TD/C news I found Trains Annual 1964 in a second hand book shop at the weekend :-) Edited May 31, 2016 by Raised On Steam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 In happier TD/C news I found Trains Annual 1964 in a second hand book shop at the weekend :-) I got it off eBay a few months ago John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 The bridge at Leadgate is now down... John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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