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...up north we have an onomatopoeic word for this kind of mishap...dunch

3 further things Poursea...1./ you make me sound like a pimp!!! and 2./ that is the last time I set you up on a blind date (its not my fault she really was washing her hair that night)...and 3./ she has never mentioned 'toy trains (liking or disliking) to me...but has mentioned the 12" to the foot train she does own... Sorry Paul for interrupting your thread to correct Uncle Poursee. The 'long boiler' looks fantastic btw, all power to you elbow and from where I'm sitting the injuries sustained in its creation have got to be worth it. My Great Grandad Tom used to drive one from Shildon to Cockermouth and back every day...a 15 hour shift and the best paid footplate job on the NER at the time apparently. A/box

http://www.brandlingvilla.co.uk/ ...would this be the establishment you were referring to Poursee??

...for a decent NER model...its been like waiting for a bus.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/22638903527/ ...an MoT 16 tonner...and a forest of signals...

...careful John once those Blackgill boys get you hooked there is no escape...and I've heard a rumor there may be the early signs of disesalation creeping into the running order...

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/ashchurch/index32.shtml ...look at the buffers on that, makes you wonder if it was physically possible to couple 2 of these 16 tonners together!

...be careful Paul, you're halfway to P4 if you start messing with your flanges...next thing you know you'll start getting twitchy with the track gauges...

Dave/Chris I'll struggle to get anything on Porcy in his younger days as by all accounts he was a bit of a 'looker' (according to my 2 sisters that went to school with him)...however I did find this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yurohd_fqj4 51 seconds in you get the return of the mullet...what you can't see is the African influence in his dress sense, most of which comes from here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz538x-CS44 ...except when he does hoops, like here... http://www.scalefour.org/scalefournorth/2015/blackgill/ ...and yes I will probably regret this...

DD is well aware of this pic...Porcy winds him up with it every few months...and yes he still has and wears the leather bomber jacket! Is it me or does he look a wee bit like the Fonz?

Dave Tornado was following me up the M74 yesterday...and not one member of my family believes it was just a fluke...even though it was...can't blame them tho as if I'd known I couldn't have timed it better...and for the record she was doing 45mph half way up Beattock...

...or perhaps the east end of Shildon works Porcy?

...there was the underframe of one of the 56T hoppers still in use on Teesside until recently...it might even still be there... Duncan

Morning Porcy According to Ken Harper writing on the Cumbrian Railway chatroom... At approx. 02:30 a container was blown from the 4S83 Basford Hall - Coatbridge freightliner service, the missing container was in fact first reported by a member of the public who found it in the morning. It blew across the path of the 23:40 Glasgow - Euston sleeper which passed the spot 10 minutes later. No damage to infrastructure has been reported. This so easily could have had a different outcome Porcy with only sheer good fortune preventing a very serious accident. Duncan

Rob The NBR van at Coundon (near bishop Auckland) is/was 724351...and under that daub of grey paint is a faded LNER engineers blue livery and beneath that post 1937 LNER bauxite...its a favourite of Porcy Maine...who might just have a photo of it in better days... Cheers Duncan

Nice Roadstone wagons Porcy...some one should make a model of them...

Thanks Richard and Arpster...one of my friends is building a model of Seahouses and has got stuck on what colour to paint the place! Somewhere in the back of my mind I've seen a colour photograph (or even film) of Seahouses...but can't for the life of me remember where...unless I'm having a senior moment and my memory is confusing Seahouses with Easingwold! Cheers Duncan

Bit of a long shot...does anyone know what colour the North Sunderland Railway painted Seahouses station? http://www.farne.co.uk/north_sunderland_railway.html You get a partial view on picture 1 from the above link. My guess* is either NER brown and Cream or LNER Green and Cream...but does anyone know for sure? Cheers Duncan *guess based on them borrowing most everything else from their bigger neighbours including their uniforms!

Mark Is this the under frame that sat at Lynemouth colliery for years? Duncan

Luckily the Aln valley railway have preserved one of these under frames up at Alnwick... http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrust.org/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=11317 Duncan

https://www.flickr.com/photos/95430950@N07/14795180102/in/set-72157638898289125 https://www.flickr.com/photos/95430950@N07/12707315043/in/set-72157638898289125 https://www.flickr.com/photos/95430950@N07/11488260395/in/set-72157638898289125 ...have we seen these before??

Arp Its has a London Midland feel about it...is that co-acting signal of LNWR origin?

http://www.northeastfilmarchive.com/videos/12758/end-era ...or even this...skip to the end and watch the lad taking a hopper wagon for a walk...Cleveland this time mind... Duncan

http://www.northeastfilmarchive.com/videos/14055/raw-material-finished-product-1932 ...how about this from Teesside in the early 30s Duncan

Arps My 1951 Port of Sunderland handbook has some rather nice pics of iron ore being unloaded into MOT 21T hoppers...probably taken in the late 40s as they are still in faded MOT livery...who else had a blast furnace in North Durham at this time apart from Consett? The book also shows chrome ore being imported and loaded into open wagons (a high sided SR 13T and a standard looking 13T open)...I'm sure Porcy will tell us where that was going to... Cheers Duncan