As it happens, a friend and I were talking about this today. We assume that some form of steel must have been delivered likely as part of a mixed goods train and that the finished ball bearings may have been loaded in to closed vans but I’ve never seen anything in writing…
Thanks for that. As a youngster in about 1970 when we lived beside the line at Consett, I can just remember a class 08 shunter heading away from Consett with two 16T mineral wagons and a brake, and returning later with scrap in the wagons – possibly from RHP?
It made my Triang-Hornby train set look quite realistic.
Does anyone know what kind of traffic the Ransome & Marles siding generated? I’ve never come across anything about it.
As it happens, a friend and I were talking about this today. We assume that some form of steel must have been delivered likely as part of a mixed goods train and that the finished ball bearings may have been loaded in to closed vans but I’ve never seen anything in writing…
Thanks for that. As a youngster in about 1970 when we lived beside the line at Consett, I can just remember a class 08 shunter heading away from Consett with two 16T mineral wagons and a brake, and returning later with scrap in the wagons – possibly from RHP?
It made my Triang-Hornby train set look quite realistic.