montyburns56

21 hours ago, doilum said:

Love the miniature Hudson tippers.

I suspect that they are bigger than your average Hudson tipper!

2 hours ago, gc4946 said:

I foresee a surprisingly high proportion of sales to people who wanted the APT first time round in 1980/81 but missed out. One of my work colleagues also missed out at the time but years later he subsequently bought two APTs at inflated prices.

This time he wants the new version!

I should imagine that now the price of the old version will drop significantly in the next year or so.

11 hours ago, Ben B said:

 

A brilliant thread, this; and a very interesting shot.  I reckon this is the bridge which still exists over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal near Thackley Tunnel, Shipley.  I spent a bit of time in the summer last year picking around the site, looking for any relics of the trackbed.  There's the odd sleeper still in the woods, but the bridge at least is still in very good nick.  And at least the locomotives still exist, including the very well-kept (if non-working) tank loco in Bradford Industrial Museum (and a diesel is still at Crossley-Evans Scrappers in Shipley, even if out of use).

If you search for Esholt Works on Flickr you'll find quite a few pictures of what remains on the site.

Esholt Works 1973 

22 hours ago, Padishar Creel said:

A one-off thread hijack

 

Whilst highly unlikely, I would love to see Hornby produce an N-Gauge version.

 

Now back to the thread please

 

es grüßt 

pc

Well they did an N Gauge version of the Brighton Belle so there is a slight possibility.

So have Hornby said if the model will tilt or not?

On 03/01/2020 at 19:51, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Monty,

 

Have you any more information upon the how, why, what, where and when of the above contraption, it would seem to be the "Salisbury Cathedral" of steeple cabbed locomotives !

 

Gibbo.

Just click on the picture and it will take you to the Flickr page with all the info about it.

22 hours ago, Trev52A said:

 

Nice to see those pics montyburns. Most of them seem to be at the southern end of the Derwenthaugh system at Clockburn Drift, which also had an underground narrow gauge link to Marley Hill colliery (but that's a different story!)

 

Round-topped cab Austerities Nos 7, 58 and 59 came from the NCB's system near Sunderland based on Philadelphia (the Lambton Railway) in 1969 when it closed to steam.

 

In answer to your question - all three were scrapped in 1972 and the whole Derwenthaugh system went diesel in the early 1970s, so no, steam didn't last into the 1980s, (otherwise I would have a box full of colour slides of the line!) The whole line closed in 1985 when the coking plant finished.

 

Trevor

Right thanks, I was a bit skeptical about the dates as surely someone would have already mentioned the site in this thread if it still used steam in the 80s.

Derwenthaugh

1970

I was curious about the odd cab design of this and some other Vulcan Foundry Austerities and it turns out that it was because they were originally built for the Lambton Railway which had a small bore tunnel.  

1971

1984

1986???

1985

1971

Did Winlaton Mill really still use steam well into the 80s?

And this is what happens when you let your children design your locos.

22 hours ago, Davexoc said:

 

Could it be a reach wagon? I would have expected it to be coupled up if it was a match truck.

It could be, but it's just that the hazard stripes suggested to me that it was semi-permanently attached to the shunter.

20222 Markinch 2008

20 219+221 whistle through Markinch on a Thornton Junction - Dundee mixed freight

What aroused my interest in this picture was the wagon with hazard stripes in the bay platform. Was it a match truck for the shunter I wonder?

20 225 descends Lochmuir bank with a short Thornton bound freight. June 1983

20220 takes over the 09.17 Edinburgh to Dundee from failed class 27 27021 - in yard behind. May 1983

I don't recall ever seeing a picture before of two 20s that weren't nose to nose

20219 and 20204, both bonnet first, approach Coaltown with 6K71 13:27 Perth Yard - Millerhill goods. May 1983

13 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

I have a Westoe album on Flickr which may help: Link

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/albums/72157697011219561

 

 

Ernie

I'm reporting you to the Mods for posting a link to hardcore industrial porn. 

Thanks for all of the great pics Trevor! I was looking online at maps to to find the line and I noticed how it was also connected to the Team Valley Estate and when I searched for those words I found these on Flickr, which I'm guessing are from the 60s??

Thanks very much Tevor! Do you happen to know when the concrete viaduct was demolished?

I've just come across this video of Westoe in the 80s.

7 hours ago, Trev52A said:

Two views of NCB No 32 (Andrew Barclay 1659 of 1920) (now preserved) on the line which crossed over the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, via a concrete viaduct to Ravensworth Park Drift Mine.

 

Propelling empties up to the mine on 20th July 1972

 

Pushing a full load towards the changeover point where wagons were hauled up an incline to join the rest of the NCB system, on 9th July 1971

 

I have several views of the viaduct but outside the timescale of this thread (taken in 1968/69)

 

Trevor

Thanks Trevor, I managed to find one picture of Ravensworth on Flickr

And are these your pictures on this website as one of them shows the concrete viaduct.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/tyneside-scene-been-transformed-beyond-13358349

On 20/12/2019 at 19:38, Trev52A said:

 

I've just searched through this thread and now realise I had missed your original post of 17th November, otherwise I might have posted mine earlier as a contrast.

I lived near the Norwood site until 1979 and I didn't even know there was an Open Day, sadly.

This must be the most immaculate working steam loco picture I have ever seen!

 

Cheers

Trevor

And the wagons behind it as well! In fact it looks like a model fresh out of the box.

On 20/12/2019 at 19:26, johnofwessex said:

 

Was that posed & who is the lucky child!

Yeah, it was some kind of Open Day.

23 hours ago, Trev52A said:

This was the last occasion I photographed a working non-preserved steam loco in this country: standby 0-6-0ST No 77 'Norwood' (you can just make out the name on the front of the tank above the smokebox) in action at Norwood Coke Works, Gateshead on 23rd May 1979.

It was built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd in Newcastle in 1948 (works No 7412), and eventually left the site in 1983 for preservation, initially at the Bowes Railway. 

 

A housing estate now covers much of this site.

Trevor

Thanks Trevor, it's nice to see it in a more realistic working condition as opposed to the ex-works ones that I posted.

Littleton Colliery 1993

Nassington Ironstone Quarry

LCGB Tour 1971

https://flic.kr/p/fa894m

Swalwell Disposal Point 1971

This one says it's from 1987, could that be right?

I've just noticed this in the schedules. I don't know what it will be like, but it might be worth a look. It's labelled as a series, but I can only see a single episode in the schedule.

DOCUMENTARY: Scotland's Scenic Railways
On: Channel 4 (4)    
Date: Sunday 15th December 2019 (starting in 6 minutes)
Time: 19:00 to 20:00 (1 hour long)

An anytime alert is set for 15 minutes before the programme starts
Beneath vast mountains and across open moorlands, Scotland's railways connect coastal towns and rural villages through a Highland landscape voted the world's most beautiful railway. This programme meets the people who work on the railway and the steam enthusiasts who safeguard these iconic routes, offering a glimpse into a diverse community united by a passion for the nation's railways.
(New Series, Audio Described, Subtitles)

I came across these pics on Flickr of the workings last Oct, so I just thought I'd post them here...

I think this is from Feb of this year