East Tanfield in Bloom

The photos below are courtesy of Ian Cowan, via Angela:

Dave from Durham CC arranging plants in a tub at ET station, as part
 of Stanley town's entry into the Northumbria in Bloom competition

Google Tanfield Railway

Google carries basic information about TR.   If you use Google search for Tanfield Railway, you'll be presented with a list of alternatives covering the TR main web, Facebook, TripAdvisor, Wiki, etc.   However, the info which Google holds is down the right hand side of the search results.   It includes some basic facts which we have to maintain, plus reviews & photos freely supplied to Google from members of the public - most of this is good to excellent, including the few bad reviews which inform us what matters to visitors.   Similarly, the photos show what the public are looking for and how we present ourselves.

There are a few reviews of NPE, not all for TR - click for more reviews

Tanfield - 3rd Prize in a Beauty Contest

Courtesy of  volunteer Terry Carr mentioning it at bait time, see an article in The Times on line for 27 September 2022  listing the top 7 steam train journeys in the UK, including TR at no.3.   The list is:

Wednesday Work & Celebration

Ian cutting flashing sheets .....

Interview & Glazing Bars

John Cook from Hetton being interviewed by Mark from Lonely Tower 
(photo courtesy of Angela Pickering)

Live Stream Book Launch

Les Turnbull is a local historian with a particular interest in the waggonway era.   He will talk about his most recent book The First Tanfield Railway at the Mining Institute at 6 - 7.15 pm on Thursday 29 July 2021.   This free talk is being live streamed.  Book at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-first-tanfield-railway-live-streamed-public-talk-by-les-turnbull-tickets-163029596913 

Horden Launch

Alex on Horden at East Tanfield

HRA Coiley Award 2021 Shortlist & Previous Winners

Tanfield Railway is a member of the Heritage Railway Association, which presents awards annually.

Peter on Horden after completion of rebuilding at Marley Hill

We have entered Horden for the 2021 Coiley Locomotive Engineering Award, for an HRA member organisation which has completed an outstanding engineering project in the overhaul, restoration, or preservation of a locomotive or self-propelled vehicle.

Tanfield Grant

Tanfield Railway has been awarded almost quarter of a million pounds from DCMS

End of the Week

Ian planning

Wednesday Work

Ian, David & Andrew removing a worn out timber from No.12 point

Ashington Workshops Brochure

The brochure below was sent by Neil Morgan:

Ashington Colliery closed in 1988, but the associated workshops kept going with work from the remaining collieries such as Ellington.   The brochure advertises the high quality overhauls on underground locos available for collieries around the country.   Ashington attempted to keep work which BC was putting into the hands of other workshops which had become private companies through subsidy from British Coal Enterprise.

Post Coronavirus Appeal

David delivering the Tanfield Railway's appeal for funding ......

Tanfield Tree with Extra Baubles

The photos below are courtesy of Ian Cowan:

Angela decorating our tree in
St Margaret's Church, Tanfield Village

Tanfield Article

Bowes & Tanfield Railway feature in next month's
Today's Railways, which is available from Monday

Monday with a Visiting Engine

Brian & Barry turning over the Tangye

Volunteering Poster

The new volunteering poster by David Watchman

Ramblers Reopen T&W Heritage Way

Ian coaling Twizell ready for today

Export Tanfield

Tanfield features in this current German magazine
(lead courtesy of Dave Hewitt)

Leading to S&D 200 Anniversary 2025