Month: May 2023

Taken on 27 May 1980, just 4 months before the closure of the steelworks, here are two cracking photos from Malcolm Braim of loaded steel trains passing Carr House signal box.

Courtesy of Malcolm Braim, three new photos at the site of Consett Station.

Three new colour shots from Bill Wilder courtesy of the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society, including the rare sight of a Class 47 on the branch.

Three photos from the late Bill Wilder and Malcom Braim from the Low and High Yards at Consett. I am especially grateful to Martin and Malcolm of the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society for their permission to publish these previously unseen photos and to Neil Patterson for making me aware of them. I’m told that Bill…