I’ve had a request for a black and white version of the photo I posted on the 9F’s passing at Stella Gill on the model version of South Pelaw a couple of days ago so here it is:
Month: December 2020
Greencroft
From Grahame Hunter, a couple of photos of trains passing Greencroft in the 1960s.
South Pelaw in EM, again…
A view over the Stella Gill incoming and outgoing lines sees 9F, 92097 on a loaded iron ore train waiting for its banker, which can be seen under the bridge approaching the rear of the train as 92061 coasts down the bank with an empty iron ore train on the return journey to Tyne Dock. …
South Pelaw Junction in EM Gauge
9F, 92097 crosses the junction having come up the Washington Branch with a loaded iron ore train for Consett. Behind the photographer it will stop and wait for the banker (the 9F in the siding in the background) to couple up to the rear of the train to provide assistant up the steep gradients on…
The Last Train…
Courtesy of Keith Turner, I’ve added three new photos of the last train at Consett on 17 March 1984 to the Last Passenger Train page.
Consett East
From a new contributor to the site, Peter Singlehurst, we have four new photos of Consett East Signal Box and Consett East Junction which, when it was open, lead to Hownsgill Viaduct.