UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

It might not look much but this is my attempt to model the Victoria Bridge at Penshaw on the Leamside Line and it consumed about 6 hours work. The next step is to figure out if I can reskin the Arched Viaduct Kit to look like the SAM Bridge Abutments. The real bridge took just 2.25 years to build , opening in June 1838 and cost the equivalent of £3.72 million in modern money. In typical BR fashion it was refurbished in 1989 and the line closed 2 years later.

Victoria Bridge NER C Class 6.5.24 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr
 
Evercreech Junction has received its own custom signal boxes - a few hours work each all in all. First up Evercreech Junction North 'box - this protected the junction between the main line and the branch and also controlled the upper yard. This box burnt down on the penultimate day of operation under mysterious circumstances leaving only the stone base and lever frame, and there are pictures of S&T engineers working besides the charred remains to reestablish communications with the rest of the line to enable to last trains to run. Of interest here is the middle landing, designed to facilitate token exchange on both the mainline and the loop line running behind the 'box.

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Evercreech Junction South 'box was the more photographed of the two, and is my favourite. It's quite a tall 'box in order to afford the signal man a clear view of the station over the footbridge. This controlled the lower yard and the various sidings. Of interest here are the signal box steps - the signal man gained access to the box from a landing on the footbridge, after which a short bridge connecting this landing to the rest of the 'box provided access. An interesting (unique perhaps?) design and one that exemplified the unique characteristics of the S&D. Pilotwoo is kindly working on a footbridge model with the panel taken out to enable a clear passage.

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Cheers,

PLP
 
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it is 7.26 am at Eastgate station on the Weardale Branch of the North Eastern Railway and whoever is the person viewing the station had better get a move on as the down branch passenger train for Wearhead leaves in two minutes!
The clerk in the booking office won't be thrilled at having to issue them the ticket either, as Stationmaster Dawson has him labelling and stamping the Stationmasters newspaper sale batch, which came in on the train, while the Porter will be getting ready to take both the mail and the newspapers to the Post office in order to catch the morning delivery. The fires were lit in the booking office and waiting rooms only after the departure of the first up branch passenger train at 6.48 am, so the place hasn't warmed through yet, adding to the pressure on the clerk.
The morning on a country station in the early 20th century, as recalled by J.B. Dawson who was just 12 at the time of the grouping and the son of the Stationmaster.
His recollections were published in the North Eastern Railway Association magazine in 1982, when Dawson was 70 and looking back on his childhood at the station.
 
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borderreiver said:
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it is 7.26 am at Eastgate station on the Weardale Branch of the North Eastern Railway and whoever is the person viewing the station had better get a move on as the down branch passenger train for Wearhead leaves in two minutes!
The clerk in the booking office won't be thrilled at having to issue them the ticket either, as Stationmaster Dawson has him labelling and stamping the Stationmasters newspaper sale batch, which came in on the train, while the Porter will be getting ready to take both the mail and the newspapers to the Post office in order to catch the morning delivery. The fires were lit in the booking office and waiting rooms only after the departure of the first up branch passenger train at 6.48 am, so the place hasn't warmed through yet, adding to the pressure on the clerk.
The morning on a country station in the early 20th century, as recalled by J.B. Dawson who was just 12 at the time of the grouping and the son of the Stationmaster.
His recollections were published in the North Eastern Railway Association magazine in 1982, when Dawson was 70 and looking back on his childhood at the station.
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Everyone fighting over the NER and the south.

Then there the poor Midland and Furness railways totally forgotten about. 😥

But still very good work there Borderreiver looking forward to it. 👍
 
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