Thanks to Neil Patterson and Malcolm Braim, here are articles from the Sunday Sun and the Evening Chronicle covering the last train to Consett on 17 March 1984.
Month: August 2023
Down at South Pelaw…
A short video showing a couple of trains passing through South Pelaw Junction on the EM gauge model of the location that I’m involved with. For anyone interested, the layout will be at the Warley show this year on 25 & 26 November at the NEC.
Over bridges, under bridges…
To the east of South Pelaw Junction, the branch to Washington passed over the East Coast Mainline. here we have three photos from Craig Oliphant of track lifting on the bridge that took the branch over the ECML. The bridge itself would survive in to 1990s when it was demolished for the ECML electrification work…