Porcy Mane

Two L Type containers on a Conflat L. Don't think that would have happened very often??? P

Lovely Combination and another Leicester Midland Line May 1983 by loose_grip_99, on Flickrurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/sydpix/5762287019/]08253 - Goole Docks[/url] by SydPix, on Flickr P

Bump. Haig Colliery by 70023venus2009, on Flickr Porcy

Mr Brooksbank has some great images. If you modelled trains this close someone would say, "Nah! Never happened". Up train from Alnmouth, trailed by a local Electric, approach Newcastle Central from Manors © Copyright Ben Brooksbank and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. P

Are we talking Dave Alexander or Dave Dunn? The former, I can't remember and I only saw him about a fortnight ago... The latter... if DD ever had Noddy Holders they had gone by 1986… http://flic.kr/p/cgYCgE and I dunno if you got to see the original of this news report? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652 Skip forward to 2’ 30” for a more up to date image. You got even longer of his dulcet tones on the local news but I don’t have a TV so never saw it. Have you seen the books he’s brought out? P

Them pics seen vaguely familiar... P

I always think of Laygate Models living on. In spirit at least, just across the water at Mr Alexanders house. Some of the casting he sells still has Laygate models branding on it. Must be something about ex Merchant Seamen retiring and opening model shops. Perhaps the best model shop I ever knew was in Penzance. At the top of Causeway Head. Like Dave Alexander, the proprietor of this model shop was an ex merchant seamen and boy… for such a small shop every inch of shelving was stacked with goodies. I spent virtually every school holiday in there, and every penny I could scrounge off my parents too. I was about twelve maybe thirteen when the guy showed me difference between 00 and EM track, ERG three link and screw couplings, etc., etc. He set me of on a voyage of railway modelling that still continues. It was a model shop where after spending a morning down at the station or poking about Ponsandane goods yard I could walk into, explain about a bit of rolling stock I’d just seen and a few seconds later have a kit for that bit of stock in my hands. Brilliant. The guy eventually retired out to Goldsithney, were he could regularly be seen playing with his garden railway. Shame on me as I can’t remember his name: or that of his shop. The original Knees in PZ (When it was on the North side of Market Jew Street) was pretty good but that was used mainly for drooling over Corgi, Dinky and Spot-On stuff. By coincidence I’m just in the process of building an Airfix 16 tonner that was bought in Boydells in Durham (I have a stash) around 1972/3 (ish). Before the Newcastle branch moved into Eldon Square they were in New Bridge Street and like Knees in PZ they were excellent for Corgi and Dinky. Porcy

I'm with it now. Bought my first Railway Modeller in there. Paul Moore could have been the painter? but he worked in telecoms. Rick sez, it's a long travel from North Wales to get to Calverts every day! P

Applegarths. Can't remember them. Was that the Model shop at the bottom of Claypath that closed in the early seventies? RH is asking did you ever get the mods to that Trix A2 finished? Porcy

You beat me to the draw by about 4 seconds old bean... (But then you did have insider info) Tally ho! P

“Twin Beech” I wish! It was Lufthansa’s Ju 52/3m, “Iron Annie” on one of it’s PR tours before appearing at Duxford the following weekend. I thought it might have been obvious from my “Bombing run” clue, the reflection on the engine nacelle, and the bit of Krupps best corrugated iron down in the RH corner of the pic. Sadly it now runs with triple props fitted to its triple P&W wasp engines. That’s what probably made it one of the smoothest piston engine aircraft I’ve flown in. (Along with the skill of the Lufthansa. pilots). Its crew are all Lufthansa volunteers btw. Porcy

Dunno if you found anything yet but a quick giggle turned up these. Should have known Stafford Linsley would have something in his collection… A very young Blackgill operator may just have been with him when he took this pic… http://sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_image.asp?digital_doc_id=4536 Just catch a glimpse of its West end here: Ninth picture down:: http://wallsendhistory.btck.co.uk/Gallery/Wallsend%20Images and finally from the Turners Collection in Tyne & Wear Archives. So much to see in this phot. Howden Gasworks, the Ballast hills, to Shell/BP tankers being loaded. (probably for Consett plate Mill. (Via Blackgill). Turners Aerial Photography - Jarrow and Wallsend by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, on Flickr Porcy

Superb Pics. I'd forgot how hot that summer was, Wonder who used to get the gob of cutting back them commutators on the convertors. Elf n safety... Pah! P

Smashing random stone on them supports. Mr K will be proud of you. Mind I'm surprised you didn't have that 01 converted within seconds of it being out of the box. I hope Martin/Richard are going to be putting the bracketry on the signal box? They have the photos... Porcy

From the 1970 pic posted by Simon. Byker, Newcastle, September 1970 by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, on Flickr So from a slightly different perspective 33 years later. The Riverside branch is no more but the Metro has appeared. The terraces have mostly disappeared to be replaced by "The Wall". On a "bombing" run in 2003... Porcy

http://ironroad.smugmug.com/IRONROAD-1/BRSteam-Vol1/16352149_FH2rB8/3#!i=1309986944&k=Xbt3W3m Porcy

So you had a few "neets oot" in "Generator" then??? P

Just download it from Youtube. It's cheaper and the quality wont be that different. P

One of my mates Aunt and Uncle lived in that street. Said they loved it when they were filming there. A neighbours family used to run the pub in Seaton Delaval and reckoned the film crew were never out of the bar. Showing my age bur during the late seventies and early eighties I was used to regularly take a pint in the Theatre Royal Bar. A tiny but "proppa" pub. It was always full. I never understood why they closed it. Probably the wrong type of Clientele! I thought it was the "generator" station for the Tyneside Electrics but I could be wrong. Around about 1987 I spend almost a week searching out and photographing the locations for a Newspaper story. The editor decided not to run it saying it would only be of interest to "Trainspotters". P

One of the few scenes not filmed around Tyneside. Going off the British Railways sign it's the level crossing on Manor Road, North Sheen. http://goo.gl/maps/m6BX5 The factory used in the Blag scenes isn't Tyneside. That’s the GEC works at Rugby. If you know Tyneside, the continuity on the road scenes is rubbish but that doesn't distract for me. Some places are long gone but other locations have hardly changed. Quite a progressive film for 1960. I surprised the censors of the time let so much through. Keep an eye out for the road entrance to the lower part of Trafalgar Yard. That’s the railway arches were they hide the getaway Jag. The arches and lane are still there. Manors station was above. The building directly opposite the arches used to be the Power Station for the third rail system. (Just trying to keep myself vaguely on topic!). P

I think your right there. And thats the "Blaggers Hide out" from the film Payroll down there on the left. See 1:30:36 http://youtu.be/MtNfq9BXwCI P

For those wishing to take a photographic tour of the Riverside Branch you could do no better to start of at this page of the RCTS: (Thanks Dunc.) http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/index.htm?location=Newcastle&serial=9#G-119-11A Sadly all the third rail has gone but you can look out for the Class 101 buffet car and this unusual view of Spillers mill. http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?location=Newcastle&serial=10&img=G-119-12a The building to left in this view was Malins, Ford Pottery. Reputedly once the worlds largest factory, the building still exists but is no longer an earthenware works. P

A couple from the RCTS mystery location page: http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?img=65-017-30A&serial=23&page=1 http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?img=65-017-22A&serial=18&page=1 P

Thanks. I'll let the builder know. Still a few bits of detailing to finish it off. P

He's recalled that story a few times. He's not on RMweb. He hasn't even got a PC but can access the internet when out and about. This is the "standard" he's working to now. One of the best running locos I've seen. Oh no he's off topic again... P