Porcy Mane

Some ended up at Lackenby. This is a good start: http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/paulbartlettsrailwaywagonphotographs/h153c24e7#h153c24e7 I think this has been discussed to conclusion somewhere else on the forum? P

Smallest train set (although it's showing off it's latest 9" extension) with the most operators (3). Just listen out for the biggest gobs and you'll find us. Oh, I'm led to believe there is a bit of a rugby scrum due to take place opposite the layout first thing on Saturday morning so that may be a time to avoid. P Ps I'll bring some South Pelaw "stuff" for you to check over...

Yep. Playing (and probably crashing) trains all weekend. P

Somewhere I have a LNER/South Pelaw Coal Co. deed plan for the access incline. I'll dig it out to see if it has any dimensions and distances on it. From memory it was the Stella Gill pilot loco that worked the colliery sidings. I think that latterly it would have been a class 08 or Class 03 or 04 shunters from Gateshead and then Tyne Yard for the short time Tyne Yard was open before the colliery closed in 1964. These diesels also took over the working of Waldridge incline after rope haulage ceased. Prior to dieselisation there are quite a few photos of N10s working the colliery yard and exchange Incline. There was a small slotted post starter signal on NCB the sidings some distance in from the boundary gate. The Colliery used side tipping wooden wagons to take spoil to the pit heap and latterly, up until closure had a strange rail mounted loco that was a converted lorry chassis. Somewhere I have photographs of the colliery and also the offices and associated boiler house that stood to the east of Pelton Lane. One thing I've never seen, is a photograph of the colliery level crossing although I have been told that a well known railway photographer who lived nearby and sadly no longer with us, undertook a full photo survey just after the colliery closed. I'll see if I can dig out any stuff that may of help but it will be well into next week as I've a train set shindig to be at over the next few days. P

Alan, you beat me to it. I wasn't aware of the thread on the LNER forum. Some where I have a book that gives quite a lot if detail on these posts. Sadly it isn't where it should be in the "filing system". The book is called "The Railway Book" I seem to remember it's publication date being quite late. Probably about 1970/2 although my copy may be a later imprint. On the other thread it's speculated to the posts being used to bring tracks back up to level in areas of mining subsidence. That's not quite their purpose. The posts would drop at the same rate as the nearby track bed and surveyor's would then measure from a fixed datum to calculate the amount of ballast being used to pack the railhead back up to level. The vertical graduations on the posts are at one foot an six inch increments. The ballast calculations were then used to charge the Coal Board for both the ballast and compensation. Regarding the spacing of the posts, I think this could vary. In a railway cutting about fifty yard from were I was born the posts were probably something like 15 yards apart yet about a mile south and were the area had been much more extensively mined (I have the mine abandonment plans.) the posts were much further apart. I don't know the logic behind that? P EDIT: Having just rescanned a neg that shows a couple of pitfall posts that I thought might have been fifteen yards apart. I was wrong. Being terribly unscientific about it, the posts in the piccy are a V2 Loco (66' 5⅛") + one LNER insulated Fish van,(22' 11") and two Conflat As (41' 10") apart. Tallying that lot up gives a tad under two chains so I reckon the poster on the LNER forum is about cock on with his estimate of 44 Yards spacing. I just wish I could find the book that gives all the details.

Probably full of plans and drawings from Shildon Works. That's were most of them went... allegedly... P

Not sure if I've posted this one before? http://www.leedsmrs.org/jpegs/Gallery/AlanSmith/P/Pilmoor%20North%20derailment%2025%20Sept%201959%20(6)%20(Photo%20BR).jpg I suppose that one way to empty a 16 tonner. Pilmoor 1959 . P

Could this be your railtour? 4th July 1987, Hertfordshire Rail Tours, "The Independent". http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/870704hr.htm Unfortunately it doesn't tell you the name of the window hanger... Porcy

This might be worth a Viewing. Bit of rail interest in part 3 if you want to know how to mark up plates for your plate wagons. It's in 3 parts. Also in 3 parts is this Anti Nationalisation film and a bit of rail interest in this blurry offering but it give a little idea of the traffic coming up the bank into Consett.. Porcy

I think this is new to this thread. P

https://flic.kr/p/c3HSdh Porcy

Your post goaded the brain cells. I can't be certain but looking through my images it seems like only York builds had the E suffix. Certainly York was applying the E ex. works and it seems to have been carried over onto blue repaints (but not all.) I have a recollection of off seeing one of the Stratford builds with a suffix but can't find an image so my imagination may be working overtime, or it was in a book. (Diesels on Eastern Region by John Vaughn.) perhaps. P

I bought a selection of Negs a good few years ago and this phot happened to be one of them. .A blow up of the original shows a wealth of extra detail. Thornaby and Gateshead sheds practice of fitting shed plates to diesels shows up well. P

Picture 81 in this series. Rushden Station http://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk/commerce/co-opslides%26captions.html Who needs a tippler! P

Is this one new? http://flic.kr/p/kc1MVy

Yep, No doubt about it. Thats Mainsforth Terrace (Now Coronation Drive) overbridge in the background. Porcy

"Best looking operators!" and "silliest smilers" awards. P

A brand new DE320922 (B964036) Proves that one never had the open bodywork. Excellent find... Porcy

But you get the general idea... P

Suprised you didn't link to this one. 63465, 63462 Norton 1962 by dpwill44, on Flickr Porcy

May have been discussed before but that image needs flipping horizontally. P

Not the main subject but a nice image all the same. http://ironroad.smugmug.com/BR-in-the-1980s-Colour/i-PPS73RN/0/O/1983%2002%2000%2003066%40derwenthaughtynenyblaydontrip.jpg P

Must get it right this time. Must get it right this time. Must get it right this time. (re post 295) Just up today on the Time Capsules site. (I wish they'd post those images on a site thats easier to navigate.) http://www.time-capsules.co.uk/picture/number3882.asp That's my type of traditional parcels train. Porcy

And a yellow door trailer composite...at that... Nice one. P

Pete, both methods used on Blackgill. See first pic in this post. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/6450-blackgill-tyne-dock-to-consett-in-p4/page-8&do=findComment&comment=1202215 Porcy