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https://www.flickr.com/groups/1408456@N24/pool/page7
With our American cousins, its sometimes difficult to work out what has been abandoned and what hasn't...don't blame me if you get addicted to this, I just sent you the link!
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...Sunset over the Cheviot this evening.
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I'm sure we've seen this before...but the thought of trawling through nearly 160 pages to look for it! Its got to be worth a replay and B557510 is the star of the show.
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52 minutes ago, RichardT said:
Returning briefly to my post back on page 9 about the Parson Byer's Quarry sidings, and Axlebox's excellent link to Streetview: on the Transport Library webpage there's a Neville Stead picture (unfortunately undated) of a J39 (??) waiting to exit the exchange sidings with the gates closed on some fine post-war motor vehicles. See https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=92722
The chap in the light mac with his back to the camera in that photo is standing almost exactly next to the rail which still survives embedded in the mud.
Richard T
Hi Richard, there are a number of photographs taken on the same day. Its a West Auckland J39 and the line up to the quarry has been lifted, so the exchange sidings must have been in use for stone loading. I don't remember where this view came from and will remove if anyone objects...but there is the rail you can see in street view
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4 minutes ago, ejstubbs said:
I think this thread is in danger of starting to stray in to the territory of the "Ghosts in the Machine" thread.
It's OK having a thread just for abandoned rails/track, but once it drifts in to non-permanent-way relics like this, we risk ending up with useful/interesting information being scattered across multiple threads and thus more difficult to find (or find again).
Not that I think the photo is uninteresting, just that it might be better posted elsewhere.
...your probably right (If nothing else, I'm good at thread drift!)
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...Something literally 'off the wall'...but still a remnant of what once was...this is where the litter bin was attached to the wall of the up waiting room on Acklington station before someone nicked it. However you can see the NER Brown and Stone colour scheme, the LNER Green and Cream, the BR (NER) Blue and off White and the current Grey and off White
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NER buffer stop at Coanwood, Northumberland
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NBR buffer stop at Aberfoyle in the Trossachs.
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Great show folks, I could spend the best part of a day just browsing.
Can you post a link to the show here?, otherwise there is a big entrance button on this page...
Enjoy, and don't blame me if the lawn doesn't get done today!
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Thanks Jon, and thanks to everyone who replied to my original question.
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2 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:
Will the Crocodile Sisters be doing the catering in the the West Riding Lounge?
10am Sunday, come along and find out...I booked 10am Uncle P as thats about the time we sober up after a Saturday night in Wakey...and bring some croissants, I'll be starving by then.
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53 minutes ago, RichardT said:
Very obscure bits of evidence for the former gated spur off the NER Wear Valley branch (now the Weardale Railway) into Parson Byers Quarry exchange sidings.
Richard, there was still track in the exchange sidings until at least 1980. I had a friend who had a caravan just up the road and of course we explored every inch of the railways around Stanhope...sadly I didn't have a camera back then, but I can tell you the fields up to Parsons Byers quarry were the best mushroom fields for miles around...but you had to get up just before dawn to beat the locals to the best of the days crop.
I've just checked it out on Street view...
...and you were right, there is still at least one rail down by the crossing
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Back to the factory floor, in Leeds...
No idea what the factory was, but you can clearly see the rails from the train as you leave the west end of Leeds station
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...it could almost be the real Blackgill.
(Just to get back on topic Uncle P)
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56 minutes ago, 5BarVT said:
Is the Blue Bell still there, or is it a different part of the ‘burn you frequent?
I was too young (and naive) to partake when I moved away.
Paul.Paul, thats a bit too upmarket for the lads from Blackgill...you'll find that lot at the mouth of the Ouseburn in the Cumberland, the Cluney, the Tyne or most probably the Free Trade Inn.
Another picture from Jess's phone, this time looking up the Colliery exchange sidings with a string of empties waiting to be taken up to the colliery, a brakevan awaiting the next full load and over in the shed yard, a Q6 being fed and watered...
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Folks
A quick question around dates...
Dogfish were built to diagram 587 however some 221 were converted to diagram 588 by adding a 9" steel strip around the top...this conversion appears to have been done for the NE region who were still using slag ballast. As the slag was lighter than stone ballast the volume was increased by adding 'greedy boards*' round the top.
The good Mr Bartlett has many and various examples of both here...
https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brdogfish
The question is, when did the conversions take place?
Also, some Trout were similarly treated, again thanks to Mr Bartlett we can compare the 2...
https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/troutzfo
Any suggestions gratefully received
Duncan
* the term 'greedy boards' dates back to chauldron wagons with an extra board added to increase capacity.
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The shed foreman at Blackgill was telling me there might be a 2nd K1 coming to the shed...
Blackgill from ground level, photo from Jess's phone.
Also, count me in to any outings along the Ouseburn.
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https://ngon30.weebly.com/closed-narrow-gauge--miniature-passenger-lines.html
There is something really sad about a closed miniature railway...
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West Cornforth County Durham from Jamie M's flickr site.
This is the view looking east along the course of the Great North of England Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway that once linked Ferryhill with Hartlepool. West Cornforth station is directly behind the photographer. The through route was closed in the 1960s, but a couple of 3 miles was retained to serve Raisby quarry at Coxhoe and Kella pit (East Hetton colliery) at Kelloe.
The crossing in better days from 6089 Gardener's flickr site.
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On 01/04/2021 at 08:16, cctransuk said:
..... and in all the minor road crossings further up the Camel valley.
John Isherwood.
...Helland crossing from Neil Smith's flickr site.
The same crossing today, pity about the shutters.
more here...
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Love this thread, its Industrial Archaeology in the raw...and remember, one day nobody will be able to remember why those rails were there...
This one is seriously obscure, as you can see from this screen grab from 'Britain from above', the corner of this house in Durham has been chamfered to accommodate what looks like a narrow gauge railway...
This is the same house today...
The house in Owengate in Durham and backs onto the castle...
...and if we zoom in we can see what looks like a blocked up door into the castle (with 2 pipes coming out)...and you can just make out a length of rail infront of the door...
This was a tramway built to load coal into the boiler room of the castle (for the central heating system). The rails are still there and next time you walk up to the Palace Green in Durham, lean over the wall and you should be able to make out the rails still in situ...
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1 hour ago, Ian Morgan said:
Ivor the Engine next please?
There is a rumour of a film...
I really hope its made by Aardman animations and surely Rob Brydon won't be in it...hes in just about everything west of the Severn...(other Welsh actors are available).
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https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6919659,-1.7001988,148m/data=!3m1!1e3
County Durham once had an extensive number of industrial railways and very little now remains, however, there is the odd length of rail still set in concrete, as here at West Hunwick brick works...
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https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9674692,-1.5814737,147m/data=!3m1!1e3
Meanwhile just along the Tyne from Central station in Newcastle, there is still quite a lot of the historic Quayside branch still set in concrete...including a double slip set of pointwork.
https://tanfield-railway.blogspot.com/2020/04/where-is-it.html
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Peckett W4 types - weathering, modifying and prototype
in UK Standard Gauge Industrial Modelling
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Peckett W4 works number 521 of 1891
I'm hoping you good folks in Peckettland may have come across a picture of works number 521.
she started life In the docks at Swansea in 1891 working for contractor Christopher Rowland subsequently being sold to Broomhill collieries, Northumberland in 1910. Broomhill sold her (prior to 1922?) to the Weardale Steel Coal and Coke company who rebuilt her at Thornley Colliery (Durham) in 1922 and sent her to work on the Weatherhill and Rookhope and Rookhope and Middlehope Railways in Weardale. She is recorded as working from all 3 sheds on these systems, at Heights quarry, Rookhope and Bolts Law. She was laid up when the system closed in 1923 and she was finally scrapped in 1941, possibly at Thornley Colliery.
Due to an extremely low bridge at Rookhope, locomotives on these lines had distinctive cut down cabs, see link below...
https://www.facebook.com/tanfieldrailway/photos/pcb.10158653625200312/10158653549500312/
I doubt she was built with a low cab, but probably ended her life with one similar to the above.
So, has anyone seen Peckett 521?
Thanks
Duncan