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| Ian emptying the foliage returned from Sunniside yesterday (photo courtesy of Dave Dixon) |
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Building Sunniside Point
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Tuesday Trackwork
The photos below are courtesy of Dave Dixon:
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| Steve, Colin & Ian working on the replacement point for Sunniside |
Monday, 17 August 2020
Sunday, 16 August 2020
At East Tanfield Today
The photos below are courtesy of Geoff Lowe:
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| Euan cleaning common carriage contact points |
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
Around TR Today
The photos below are courtesy of Dave Dixon:
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| Dennis spacing timbers for the replacement Sunniside point ..... |
Monday, 10 August 2020
Sunday, 9 August 2020
Friday, 7 August 2020
The Great Fire of Gateshead
The great fire of Gateshead (& Newcastle) quayside happened in 1854. In this year Marley Hill shed was in use, & Tanfield coal was being shipped from the Gateshead quay area.
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| A contemporary view of the fire |
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Tuesday's Tasks
The photos below are courtesy of Dave Dixon:
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| Clearing surplus & rotten sleepers retrieved following Causey work from the flat waggon ..... |
Monday, 3 August 2020
Sunday, 2 August 2020
Sunday with Further Preparation .....
..... for running public passenger trains
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| Oiling No.2 at Marley Hill before heading to ET |
Saturday, 1 August 2020
Preparation & Practice .....
..... for welcoming visitors & restarting public passenger trains.
The photos below are courtesy of Angela Pickering except where stated:
The photos below are courtesy of Angela Pickering except where stated:
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| Lewis & Martin cleaning & preparing Pontop Canteen in MH carriage shed |
Friday, 31 July 2020
Geoff's Jolly
The photos below were taken by Geoff Lowe on his recent staycation:
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| Seen through the fence at Irchester NG Railway, Northamtonshire |
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Lineside Work
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| Ian & Dave removing rotten fencing at No.1 footpath crossing (photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe) |
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Today around Tanfield Railway
The photos below are courtesy of Angela Pickering:
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| Ian enjoying grass cutting |
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Monday, 27 July 2020
Sunday, 26 July 2020
Fishburn
From the A1(M) I glimpsed maintenance today on the Ferryhill to Teesside line, and later walked through Hardwick Park to a footpath on a former colliery railway leading from the Teesside line to Fishburn.
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| Looking north to Fishburn coke works, possibly in the 1970s |
Saturday, 25 July 2020
Friday, 24 July 2020
Why was the steam engine invented in the UK?
In the early 18th century Thomas Newcomen of Dartmouth developed the first steam engines to be put to industrial use. They did the work previously performed by continuous shifts of men or horses labouring endlessly to keep floodwater out of Cornish tin mines.
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| A Newcomen engine at Farme Colliery, Glasgow in the early 20th century (Glasgow Museums) |
Thursday, 23 July 2020
A Wet Day on Causey Platform
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| Steve, Cameron, Dennis, Dave & Ian replacing retaining brackets on Causey platform edge |
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Tuesday around Tanfield
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| Steve coupling during shunting at Marley Hill (photo courtesy of Angela Pickering) |
Monday, 20 July 2020
Sunday, 19 July 2020
NEMT Boats
The North East Maritime Trust owns historic boats, & has several associated. A few feature below.
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| WWI-built Tynemouth lifeboat Henry Frederick Swan ..... |
Saturday, 18 July 2020
Friday, 17 July 2020
Free Short Online Courses
Free online courses from the University of Strathclyde - 4 weeks of 3 hours, join now:
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| Working Lives on Britain's Railways: Railway History and Heritage 1840-1914 |
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Tuesday's Work
The photos below are courtesy of Dave Dixon:
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| Colin drilling retaining brackets for Causey platform sleeper face |
Monday, 13 July 2020
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Tanfield Tercentenary -5
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| Peter & Alan, founding TR preservationists, with Tanfield's 295th birthday cake. We aim for bigger celebrations & achievement as we head towards our 300th in 2025. |
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Friday, 10 July 2020
JW Carmichael - Again
John Wilson Carmichael was born in Newcastle in 1799, served on ships & was apprenticed to a ship builder, but became a prolific full time artist. He was notable as a marine artist of accuracy & detail, but he produced railway & engineering scenes as the opportunity arose, such as for "Views on the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway" written by its engineer John Blackmore on the opening of the line.
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| Newcastle from Redheugh, near the junction of the N&CR with the Tanfield Waggonway. On the right quayside is the short-chimneyed engine house of the Redheugh incline**. (JW Carmichael, late 1830s, published in The Northumbrian) |
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Monday, 6 July 2020
Sunday, 5 July 2020
East Tanfield 22 July 1992
The photos below of the first TR carriages into ET are by Derek Knott, courtesy of Andrew Knott:
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| Wellington being oiled for the return from East Tanfield Who are the crew? |
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Moving the TDE Crane
The photos below are courtesy of Ian Cowan:
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| Built by Thomas Smith of Rodley (Leeds) as works no.24065 in 1957, a 10 ton lift diesel electric bogie rail crane sits on the dockside at Tyne Dock Engineering of South Shields in the mid 1990s (Looks like a rig base passing up the Tyne behind.) |
