Back to the real thing for today’s update with three new photos from long time contributor to the site, Craig Oliphant showing Class 37, 37058 shunting the Low Yard during the demolition of the steel works on 15 July 1983.
Month: October 2021
Portraits of the past…
More from the EM Gauge version of South Pelaw with three black and white portrait photos. The photos were taken by Tony Lambert and have been cropped and ‘decoloured’ to product the photos you see. 9F 92097 ready to leave South Pelaw Junction for the banker assisted climb to Consett: K1 62060 heads under Pelton…
Chasing Trains…
A video from the EM gauge layout of South Pelaw showing two trains (a Q6 hauled oil train from Jarrow and a Class 24 with a load of pit props for the local collieries) running through the junction from the east end of the layout, under Pelton Lane bridge and through to the Stella Gill…
Something a bit different…
Nothing to do with South Pelaw or the Tyne Dock line but a friend of mine, Mick Worral who runs the Durham Trains of Stanley model shop, is building a model of Eastfield shed in Glasgow as it was in the 1980s. At around 70′ * 25′ it’s a monumental undertaking and here a few…
More of the last train…
Three more photos from Keith Turner of the last train on March 17 1984 at Newcastle, Beamish and Leadgate. Added to the Last Passenger Train page.
It’s a small world…
A few shots of some of the buildings on the EM gauge South Pelaw layout and a small update on my own P4 version of the same location. South Pelaw signal box and a selection of the many working semaphores on the layout, with 9F 92062 waiting for the signal to allow it to pass on…