A bit of nostalgia - 1996 North East

[black and decker boy]

Looking through my photos for another topic and found these. Amazing to think it was 16 years ago, a few months after EWS had taken over the 3 railfreight companies and the groundswell of optimism that accompanied it. Also sad that TE depot is now long gone along with many of the locos and wagons seen in the photos.

 

1 Thornaby depot

 

2 08813 Thornaby WRD 13 MAY 1996 - pottering about between the Wagon repair shops and Tees Yard

 

3 37332 + 37682 Thornaby TMD 13 JUNE 1996 - 37682 in the temporary gloss white used on ex-works locos as soon as it was known EWS would be taking over Loadhaul

 

4 37684 Tees yard 13 MAY 1996 - heading east, possibly for BSC Skinningrove

 

5 37718 Darlington Station 13 MAY 1996 - waiting to head north to Tyne Yard with a rake of Rudd spoil wagons

 

6 37885 Tees Yard 13 JUNE 1996 - another ex-works 37 in temporary 'Ghost' white livery before being repainted into EW&S Maroon and Gold

 

7 47218 + 47245 Passing Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - this was an RfD european service heading south from Wilton.

 

8 56035 + 56084 passing Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 on an intermodal

 

9 56039 + 56111 Tyne Yard 13 JUNE 1996 - ready to head north, either to Carlisle and the Scottish Opencast mines or into Northumberland.

 

10 56062 Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - empty rake of potash wagons from Tees Dock before heading back to Boulby mine

 

11 56108 Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - aggregate boxes - not sure if ballast, Lime or potash

 

12 56112 Tees Yard 13 JUNE 1996

 

13 60004 Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - eastbound steel slab \ bloom for either BSC Lackenby Redcar or BSC Skinningrove

 

14 60023 Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - eastbound steel slab \ bloom for either BSC Lackenby Redcar or BSC Skinningrove

 

15 60094 passing Tees Yard 13 MAY 1996 - imported coal heading for the midlands or Aire Valley power stations

Edited February 23, 2012 by black and decker boy

[Waveydavey]

A couple of suggested corrections to the captions you have put.

 

Picture 4 - the train is most likely steel sections from Etruria departing toward Middlesbrough Goods or Tees Dock for export. Skinningrove rolled special sections from steel blooms and so would not be receiving them inwards.

 

Picture 10 - this train is two potash wagons and ten(?) salt boxes coming out empty from Middlesbrough Goods. Potash trains from Tees Dock generally didn't run round in Tees as they would run round at Grangetown and salt only ran to M'bro Goods

 

Pictures 13 & 14 - Difficult to tell if the wagon loads are slab or bloom but they'll have come from Scunthorpe. My guess is that this train is 6N30 Scunthorpe to Tees and then forward to Lackenby. Nice to see my mate Andy waiting to uncouple the BDAs and SPAs from the rear. Slabs could go forward to Lackenby and Dalzell but blooms would be for either Lackenby or Skinningrove.

 

Nice to see some pictures of my old workplace, I really miss the place.

 

Cheers

 

David

[JN]

Thanks for sharing these...