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 did his own developing and was very much a perfectionist something which I believe shows through in the quality of these images.
There are plenty more of them still to come…
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37008 is a superb photo. Thx for sharing, the challenge was always to capture the loco number legibly, not to mention the equally superb industrial skyline. What exactly would have happened to this train once in Tyne Yard – surely not for the hump shunt?!
As I understand it, the train would have reversed at Tyne Yard and headed south down the East Coast Main Line.
It would go forward on 8M65, the 0240 Tue-Fri Tyne Yard to Brierley Hill, a service which was discontinued immediately after closure of the works as its traffic flow was exclusively steel for the West Midlands engineering industry.
Thanks for that Paul, appreciate it.