Easter Sunday 5/4

HL No.2 with the empty stock passing Cochrane waiting in MH shed yard .....
(photo courtesy pf Neville Whaler)

Saturday 4/4

Cochrane being readied at MH shed as Euan flags his train being propelled onto the branch
(photo courtesy of Steve Easton)

Thursday 2/4

Jim cleaning a rotary table to use on the miller

Wednesday 1/4

Terry fitting a sign at Causey Crossing
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

Tuesday 31/3

Dave mowing over the Bowes Railway route to Birkheads & beyond

Monday 30/3

Eric making a pipe bracket for 38's lubrication system

Sunday 29/3

Susan completing a report
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

New Book & Talk

Coxlodge Waggonway viaduct over the Ouse at Gosforth (by TH Hair)

His latest book  Doon the Waggonway  will be the subject of a free talk by Tyneside historian Les Turnbull at the Mining Institute on Thursday 23 April.

This early 19th century waggonway traversed the whole of Newcastle from Coxlodge across Gosforth, past the RVI,, through Heaton to the Tyne at Wallsend.   It is also linked to people behind much of the mining & railway development on Tyneside - Blenkinsop, Brandling, Brunton, Buddle, Stephenson, etc.