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Excellent pictures again, I love the BL carflats were these exports or imports?

Pete, if you you yo u need wood let me know, as I I get a bit of discount at the thaxters and they always cut off off timber for me free of charge

They look more like pipe wagons to me Peter, great photographs by the way only found this thread today

Dream weaver. ... Gary Wright

Excellent, having D0226 on a preserved railway in 1966 is age wise like having a class 70 on a preserved railway today

Not the safest thing to do bearing in mind the starter is on! I hope he knew there was nowt coming on the down

Hi Mark, I'm pretty sure the track was actually installed. There was a plan in the early 90s to relay it but I can't remember what that was in connection with. Something tells me it was about ici getting coal from Redcar mineral

Think we may be getting confused here, I thought you were talking about the grids (yards) whereas I think you're talking about the blast furnaces

With reference to my earlier post. Gosberton was replaced by a new 'modular building' box about two years ago, this has now gone and control transferred to Lincoln which itself will be a short lived box when it's functions are passed to the York ROC

Mr blue sky... Elo

That was Lea box near Gainsborough.Higham box was provided between Bury St Edmunds and Kennett for engineering works. It was a poratcabin and contained blocks etc and a small panel.Wood walton was a 'garden shed' on stilts provided for civils to reinforce the formation between Abbotts Ripton and Connington South. It came and went as works progressed.Twenty Feet River box opened in 1974 and closed in 1982. The lever frame came from Spital Junction, Peterborough, shortened, overhauled and reinstalled in the new box at Whitemoor.

Wasn't Lea box for the Nottingham blockade? I went past it on a charter from skegness when it was open.

I was also going to mention Higham, it finally dissapeaed a couple of years ago.

That's interesting Arthur, I didn't realise they were built separately. 5 grid was actually built with access off the Wilton branch but I don't think it was ever used by BR traffic

Did the clay lane furnaces open in 57? I may be wrong here but thought the lackenby grids opened late 50s

Fascinating map. Take it its from the early 50s ,pre Lackenby grids?

Is that the tunnel at the east end of Southbank coke ovens or the filled in one at the other end. I once was told that the electrics were used on a gantry somewhere after their work to the warfe was finished.

Those pictures are the only ones I ever seen of those locos. They are not far off the look of the old triang 0-4-0 electric loco

Year of the cat... All Stewart

Something on Dorman Longs extensive railway system and an answer to Davids question above.

 

Firstly a schematic showing the railways serving the various works.

 

Railway Schematic.jpg

 

A close up of the lines serving the ore wharf at South Bank, circled in Davids post above, showing the electrified lines.

 

South Bank Ore Wharf plan.jpg

 

A couple of shots showing the ore unloaders and the electric locos at work.

 

Ore Unloaders and Electric Loco.jpeg

 

South Bank Ore Wharf.jpg

 

The electric locos were used on a captive circuit moving ore from the wharf to the stocking grounds just south of it.

 

Electric Loco 1.jpg

 

Ore wagons were hauled, by rope, up the gantry shown in the next photo and their contents dumped onto the ore stocking piles beneath.

 

Electrc Loco at Stocking Grounds.jpg

 

DL had some 45t capacity hopper wagons built for this service.

 

45t Ore Hopper.jpg

 

Along with a large fleet of conventional steam locomtives in the 1950's DL took into service some Sentinels for use at the Clay Lane plant. shown below is the single, double ended, articulated locomotive used on coke traffic.

 

Sentinel Articulated Loco.jpg

 

Fireless locomotives were used at theLackenby open hearth plant for moving ingot bogies.

 

Fireless Loco at Lackenby.jpg

 

Another specialised wagon was this bogie open used for moving crop ends, the ends of rolled blooms which contained flaws and slag, which were returned to the open hearth plant for re smelting.

 

60t Bloom Crop Wagon.jpg

 

Two photos of sidings serving the Clay lane works, the lower one shows some of the colour light signaling used for traffic control at this busy point.

 

Clay Lane Sidings.jpg

 

Signals and Signal Cabin.jpg

 

And finally, two photos showing the hot sinter transfer car. Sinter required cooling and DL's method copied that used at coke ovens. The transfer car was loaded with the hot sinter, run out onto the gantry and the hot sinter dumped onto the bench for cooilng. Not a method I've seen used elsewhere.

 

Sinter Car.jpg

 

Hot Sinter Car.jpg

Just found this, absolutely stunning! When did the electrics start and finish? There was one dumped near clay lane into the early 80s but the catenery had long gone, did the wires extend south of the mainline? Anymore pictures of DL electrics would be greatly appreciated

I use a lot of wills too. The shop is opposite the tourist information, sells a lot of building materials rather than stock. It's owned by a top lad called dave who was on the pway down your old area

Looks excellent, take you know about the new model should in Cromer? He sells wills stuff

Home by the sea... Genesis

Here is a very rough trackplan as promised, not the greatest but you can get the general idea

Thanks Derek

Speaking of dinosaurs Russ, is that your van in your Avatar? Is it occasionally parked at the side of Norwich Station? Saw one there a few months back in super condition

Thanks for that, yes the van is at Norwich sometimes

The way to remember it is BR the lower of the signals is bottom is for the right hand route

As regards the main signal been mistakenly taken instead of the disc an identical arrangement albeit colour light exists at Norwich to this day

I can't really get nostalgic about much of the privatisation era,too much of the equipment and infrastructure that I knew and loved were dispensed with sometimes for no reason by the 'new brooms' brought in by some companies to sweep us old dinosaurs away!!