Sunday Spring Gala

 

Luke checking the waggon train passing No 10 signal.

STC Library Photos

South Tyneside Council publish historical photos & documents online.   Two photos are captioned as the Pontop Railway near Jarrow in the 1960s, but I'm unsure about whereabouts these were taken.   Does anyone have more info?

A loco approaches .....

Local Photographers' Visit

Tynemouth Photographic Society visited TR on Wednesday 12 June 2024.

The group from Tynemouth Photographic Society
See some of their photos at Club Galleries 

Now & When?

The photos below are courtesy of Dave Hewitt.   The 'Now' shots are from Sunday 19 Feb - but when were the others taken?

49 passing No.1 signal on the approach to Andrews House

Frank Sutcliffe

Frank Sutcliffe was a resident of Whitby who in the late 1800s & early 1900s took a great many photos of Whitby & its people, particularly at work.     I came across those below in the book Frank Meadow Sutcliffe: A Second Selection.     This & other publications are commonly available, via the internet & in Whitby.

Laying a cable across the River Esk c1910 - but the 4-wheel carriages behind are of note

NPE 2022 Day#7

The photos below are courtesy of John Turnock:

Horden heading away from East Tanfield with a North Pole Express (NPE)

NPE 2022 Day#6 featuring No.49

George on 49 taking the North Pole Express towards the Pole
(photo courtesy of Geoff Atkinson)

TR About 1992

We recently received a letter with some photographs from Averil Fuller of Hampshire:

The letter

Chris Killip - Photographer

Chris Killip (1946-2020) was a commercial photographer who switched to documentary photography in the 1970s, just in time to record the demise of heavy industry in NE England, with its affects on people & the region.   He published several celebrated books of iconic photos, but his son was instrumental in getting him to publish early work recording the end of Tyneside shipbuilding.   There is a Laing Art Gallery exhibition of this work - two of my rough snaps of this are below:

Looking down a Wallsend back lane, over the NER riverside branch, into Swan Hunters yard

Sylvan Scenes

The photos below, taken last Sunday, are courtesy of Dave Hewitt:

Horden on Causey West Incline .....

John's Sunday Views

The photos below are courtesy of John Turnock:

Horden on today's first train from .....

Horden Photo Feature

The photos below are courtesy of Rob Batty of Point and Shoot Photos:

Horden outside MH carriage on Saturday 19 June

New Old Photos on Tanfield Flickr

Tommy Knox has scanned & uploaded more photos to the Early Days album on Tanfield Flickr.   Some examples are below:

Bowes Bridge loop being installed c1977

New Photo Site on the Web

Memory Lane is a new website which gives searchable access to several other photo webs as well as photos stored within itself.   It further enables folks to freely add their own photos, with the aim of creating a resource which extends across the UK and time (rather like Geograph).

Eric, Ian & Gibraltar Bridge 1987 - search Memory Lane for Marley Hill 
(photo MirrorPix)

Geograph - Ben Brooksbank

Geograph Britain & Ireland has the aim of photographically documenting the UK & Eire geographically & in time.   A couple of weeks ago some of Walter Dendy's photos were featured on this blog.   It seems that these were published on Geograph by Ben Brooksbank.

Westoe Lane Station on the SSM&WCR in 1953
(photo by Ben Brooksbank, from Geograph, reproduced under Creative Commons licence)

Geograph - Walter Dendy

Geograph Britain & Ireland has the aim of photographically documenting the UK & Eire geographically & in time.   I find this very useful & interesting, and I think we are indebted to photogaphers who submit their work to the cause.   One such is Walter Dendy (deceased), whose photos of historical railway scenes are wonderful & illuminating.

The Lady Armstrong approaching Chathill with a NSR fish & passenger train in 1939
(photo by Walter Dendy, from Geograph, reproduced under Creative Commons licence)

Beamish Crane in Use

A 5 ton Smith rail-mounted crane was stored by Beamish at TR for many years, during which time it was used for several engineering jobs before we got a larger crane & Beamish collected theirs.

The photos below are courtesy of Ian Cowan:

Philip steaming the crane in MH yard - no sign of sheds or shops

TR Gala

The scene outside Marley Hill shed on Saturday morning 15 June 2019
(photo courtesy of Michael Denholm)

Previous gala shots & videos presenting a 2020 virtual gala have recently been published for several days on TR Facebook.

Marley Hill as Beamish Store

Chris Shearer has sent in a couple of photos of Marley Hill shed & yard in use by Beamish as a store for large exhibits during 1971-72.

No.41 from Derwenthaugh on MH shed south road
(photo courtesy of Chris Shearer)

1960s Marley Hill

No.83 (HE 3688 of 1949, ex No.20) heading west with empties
past Marley Hill, a job done by Vic a few years earlier
See Tanfield Facebook yesterday for more photos from the same era