borderreiver
Well-known member
Hi Lewisner.
When I look at my original Consett & NW Durham route I can now see all too clearly where my research was lacking "back in the day".
It is a process of improvement, that is for sure.
The items related to the orginal Londonderry builders are going to have to be either custom built or substituted with as close an item as we can find.
I was looking at the disused railways site for Ryhope East and the station buildings are unique items. the footbridge is also a unique item.
I have been thinking some more about the reversing lines lying between the running lines at the south end of the Ryhope Grange Junction complex.
Looking at Fawcett Street Junction, a train from the north intending to stop and have the loco run round prior to the descent down the lower Penshaw branch to Hendon Junction would have been decidedly unpopular.
The train would have occupied the up running line, the loco would have to run all the way up to Millfield station to find the nearest trailing connection and then all the way back.
If the driver had a robust sense of humour and a fit fireman, it is possible that they could have pressed the Bishopwearmouth Flour Mill siding connection into use as an extended form of trailing turnout.
Three changes in loco travel, six levers and the likelihood that everything past the first lever on the siding was private metals.
I can imagine a stern letter, if not a telegram on its way to the District Manager if the owner of the Flour Mill found an 0-8-0 on the siding.
When I look at my original Consett & NW Durham route I can now see all too clearly where my research was lacking "back in the day".
It is a process of improvement, that is for sure.
The items related to the orginal Londonderry builders are going to have to be either custom built or substituted with as close an item as we can find.
I was looking at the disused railways site for Ryhope East and the station buildings are unique items. the footbridge is also a unique item.
I have been thinking some more about the reversing lines lying between the running lines at the south end of the Ryhope Grange Junction complex.
Looking at Fawcett Street Junction, a train from the north intending to stop and have the loco run round prior to the descent down the lower Penshaw branch to Hendon Junction would have been decidedly unpopular.
The train would have occupied the up running line, the loco would have to run all the way up to Millfield station to find the nearest trailing connection and then all the way back.
If the driver had a robust sense of humour and a fit fireman, it is possible that they could have pressed the Bishopwearmouth Flour Mill siding connection into use as an extended form of trailing turnout.
Three changes in loco travel, six levers and the likelihood that everything past the first lever on the siding was private metals.
I can imagine a stern letter, if not a telegram on its way to the District Manager if the owner of the Flour Mill found an 0-8-0 on the siding.