Month: February 2025

On 29 September 1985, whilst involved in the lifting of track on the branch, loco 31102 and a train of 5 wagons and a brake van ran away from the site of Pelton station all the way to Tyne Yard where they were eventually stopped by colliding with 37072. The accident report, from which I…

A montage of photos of the layout by Karl Crowther and courtesy of Railway Modeller:

Had a go at replicating the recent photos of the Q6 on the layout today. I only have an iPhone so depth of field is hopeless and, of course, the camera doesn’t scale but they are pretty close and could certainly be improved with a decent camera…

Doing what it was designed to do, Q6 63377 starts the journey from South Pelaw with a train of loaded 21T hoppers full of coal for Consett in the mid 1960s. Photos taken by Russell Benson and courtesy of Dave Dunn.

A couple of movements at South Pelaw taken from the Pelton Lane bridge on the EM gauge layout.