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Staying in the northeast, we now move to Saltburn,  the end of the line, on 27th August 1969

 

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Looking towards the buffer stops there is a Met-Camm. on the right.  I don't know what the other unit is but I'll bet that someone can tell us!

 

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Turning round we now look down the track towards Middlesbrough.  I am intrigued to see a tandem turnout on what looks like a running line as I thought these things were usually confined to goods yards and loco sheds.  Obviously they are not 

 

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And this is how I know it's a Met-Camm. unit; E50222 but I don't know the number of the other car.

 

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Lastly, inside the gloomy trainshed.  Clearly picking up litter was not a priority.

 

I haven't been back to Saltburn since I took these photos so I have no idea what it's like today.  Is the trainshed still there or is it long gone?  Perhaps someone can tell us (Jonathan?) and if anyone has any "now" photos then please feel free to post them on this thread.

 

Chris Turnbull

Fantastic pictures, it looks like a lot of the track was still in regular use judging by how shiney it is. Looking at the run round loop it seems some loco hauled services were still using it, parcels service?

Finally I didn't realise that the excursion platform was taken out before the others

Little lies,.. Fleetwood Mac

Dreamer, supertramp

That's superb Pete. In such a short time!

Summoned by bells. Big big train

Living thing, ELO

Windy town, Chris rea

She's mine, Steve Perry

Ceribral man, pat benatar

Thanks, I will need quite a few Bachmann grain wagons when they are released.

Eventually there should be three locations on the layout dealing with grain

A couple of bridges I have built recently the smaller one will be a scenic break for a truncated branch line which is now a single siding serving a grain silo

The longer one is to add some relief to what would otherwise be a fairly flat yard

It's dead easy so much easier than flock, its one of those tedious jobs which becomes quite satisfying.

Next layout... I'm feeling very lazy seeing how fast you work!

Looking very good Pete, can't believe how quickly you have built it!

I have a static grass applicator if you want to borrow it?

Fantastic, I didn't realise they'd got it to work in multi with a production power car.

Good to see the exhaust cleared when it got a bit more use

There is an approximation of the three swallows on the layout to keep things real!

I'm only about three miles from you so I wouldn't want all the light pollution too

That incident and its outcome was way off balance when we remember a certain incident at Stafford where a cowboy "driver" (I use the term loosely) drove a 47 like he stole it, exceeding the limit of a LE by 20 mph, DSD isolated, faulty under reading speedo and promptly SPAD'ed!  And that plank didn't even have a mainline license and got off scot free!

And I'm afraid to say he isn't the only one, there are too many people getting in the seat of things they have no idea about... But they think they do....

Thanks simon. Its far from finished there will be a wells style gantry to load a coaster at the quayside when finished

It won't let me attach anymore

Here are a few pictures of my layout, its far from finished and the stock in the pictures are mostly old stuff used for gauging.

The scenario is that the port of Cley next the sea in Norfolk did not silt up in the 1500s and became a port to rival Yarmouth. The GE continued the main line to here. There is also a secondary route to King's Lynn and the Midlands ( more duplication for the M&GN!)

The layout when complete will be a circuit with a triangle into the station which is a watered down Norwich but for space issues the King's Lynn line leg of the triangle is single

it will be dcc an is set 1966/68 so green and blue diesels

I think this is the one

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/Whitehall-Pit-Iron-Mine/

I can't find my mining books still packed away after a house move over 3 years ago!

The location on the map is not exactly where I remember reading about it

No Ironstone mine in Whitby, they were at Grosmont, Beck Hole and Glaisdale.

 

There was one short lived one near Sandsend and more the further north you get.

I'm pretty certain that in one of my books possibly the one about the Grosmont mines it makes a reference to a shaft near Bog Hall, I'll see if I can find the book over the weekend

I think the ironstone mine was somewhere where the boats are stored today. I don't think it was open very long but it was a shaft mine,it is referred to in one of Simon chapmans excellent books on the Cleveland mines, are you local to the area as Guisborough book shop and two bookshops in Whitby sell them.

Not many down here in Norfolk!