Author: John Donnelly

A short video from the layout showing double headed Class 24s on loaded iron ore trains passing through South Pelaw.

From Bill Wilder, with thanks to Neil Patterson and the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society, a couple of pics of 37061 at the head of a track lifting train between Greencroft and Annfield Plain on 12 April 1984.

We are delighted that South Pelaw features as Railway of the Month in this month’s (July 2024) Railway Modeller Magazine. Here are a few photos, courtesy of Railway Modeller and Karl Crowther that didn’t make it in to the article:

It’s been a while since the last update but here we have three superb photos from Craig Oliphant. On 28 September 1983, Class 31s 31275 and 31277 made the final delivery of coal to Consett. On the 30th (thanks Craig), the empty wagons would form the final revenue earning train to leave Consett.

We spent the Easter weekend in York running the layout for three days. Here are a couple of short videos:

Four photos taken by Bill Wilder, with thanks to Neil Patterson and the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society, of 37200 in Consett and Leadgate during removal of scrap from the demolition of the steelworks.

Happy New Year and welcome to the first update of 2024 with plenty more to come as I currently have over 280 photos in the ‘to publish’ folder. We’ll start with five shots from and of the Grove bridge which carried the A692 over the Low Yard at Consett Steelworks with my thanks to Mike…

Four photos of track lifting adjacent to the sidings for the Ransome and Marles factory at Greencroft. Photos by Bill Wilder and my thanks, once again, to Neil Patterson for sending them to me and to the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society for allowing them to be published.

From a new contributor to the site, Robert Sharp, a couple of photos of a very sorry looking Beamish signal box in 1982.

Four shots from 1983 by Craig Oliphant showing scrap trains from the demolition of the steel works at various points down the line.