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Thanks very much for the info Arthur

Does anybody know if clarke kits are still on the go? I believe they made some white metal slag cars and some scrap boxes.

Thanks for the picture Mark,I remember seeing rakes of those slag cars at clay lane and at Bessemer,just a bit too young to have seen the old open hearth furnaces at lackenby.I do remember walking through there though many a morning to get to the mobile tools garage at the skullbreaker end of the plant.

Thanks very much Arthur for the info.

Hello All, Im looking for any information anyone might have about the type of rolling stock used at the old Lackenby open hearth plant, i.e did the bring the iron from the blast furnaces by Kling ladle or torpedo , and what type of slag cars were used?

Hello Arthur, looking at post 63 the furnaces in the photograph look like the old cleveland Bessemer plant but i dont ever remember seeing a wagon hoist as shown in front of these,i thought the wagons were shunted up an incline behind the skip hoists to the rear of the furnaces.Could these two be the old warrenby plant before modernisation?

Are these two furnaces at the old redcar ironworks? they look similar to the two merchant iron furnaces at Cleveland works.

Thanks very much for the warrenby works information,after doing a little more research there was an iron works on this site a lot earlier. Any further info or even a plan showing the works layout would be great.

It's the old Dorman Long works that were on the site of the new complex,from what I can remember they were demolished in the early 70's when the gare road was diverted to make way for iron ponding. I also believe there were a couple of blast furnaces but these were closed down in the 60's and they were close to where the old Warrenby halt station used to be.

Hello everyone,I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get old photos or Evan a plan of the old Warrenby works,both of the blast furnace site and the steelplant as these seem to be quite scarce, as I'm planning a 00 gauge layout loosely based on the old works.