Axlebox

...Jarrow April 1970 from Graeme Philips Flickr (with a rather nicely painted LNER hopper)

...a link from Brian Flannigan's flickr pages, Burntisland 1966

...a link from Kenneth Mason's Flickr pages, Sunderland 1971

Chris No need to apologize, Croft Depot was built partly as a test piece and partly to inspire folks to 'have a go' at something simple...and weirdly, Croft lives just the other side of Alnwick moor from Whittingham... Cheers Duncan

They usually meet in either Elsdon (near Otterburn) or Stannington (near Morpeth), but have also been know to pop up in Southdean (on the road to Hawick) and Cornhill. The annual show (Workshop Wise) is held around September in Stannington village hall...and is as famous for its catering as it is for the quality of the modelling. Mr Gallon comes up every year, just for his breakfast...

Welcome to the wilderness Chris...once this pandemic has run its course you must come along and meet the North East and Borders area group of the EM gauge society...an eclectic group of modellers from both sides of the border who meet every month or so for a lecture/demonstration/talk, or just to spend an afternoon with like minded souls (and drink tea). They are (apparently) the best attended area group of the EM gauge society which is probably because they are a broad church and all are welcomed (from 009 to gauge 1)...they even let me attend from time to time. http://www.modelrailwayclubs.co.uk/clubs/northumberland/n-e-borders-area-group-(e-m-gauge-society)

Good on you Richard, Ray was a proper gentleman and always had a friendly word of encouragement. If you had an interest in the railways of South West Durham then Ray was your man. His photograph collection has been passed to the Armstrong Trust and pictures occasionally appear on Ernie's Flickr site, as here in a wonderful shot of his home town from 1963. Thank you Ray for sharing your enthusiasm with us.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/13/ore-inspiring-the-race-to-raise-16m-to-save-yorkshires-victorian-iron-kilns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR0PNlJ3kmhfqWO-dBpj7Lhpn-lTc_NMpp4yUmvcMJGs29x3LCs6ryFnlks

Uncle Porsee made me slowly drive along this line up so he could photograph them all without getting out in the rain...

Thanks Mark, that explains this pair then... https://hhtandn.org/relatedimages/6272/wagons-on-coal-staiths

The 070360 number is in the sequence for a BR owned internal user wagon...but for a wagon allocated to the Western region! (IIRC NE region wagons were in the 042XXX series)

12th March 1978. Internal User 16t mineral 070360 (marked for use in Hartlepool)

Thanks caradoc, nice bit of film of the bridge in use...with some 16T minerals being shunted across...

...38 years ago

...second opinion, if you look carefully you can see the other photographer lurking behind the fence.

patch, stripe, rust and paint with whatever pot of grey was to hand...

patch, stripe, rust and fade

...summer Saturday afternoons.

Nice line up across the back...and a slope sider hiding round the back...

Presta or Schrader? These things are important.

...unboxing videos don't get better than this respectful homage to the genre...

...Uncle Poursea, you might be into something...just look at them diamond cutouts on that conflat L...

...you can almost smell the warm creosote.

...have we seen this gathering before? Nice to see the brakes well pinned down...

...and this, Kings Lynn 1961