UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

Just a few shots from my work in progress based on the area around Carlisle.

First picture shows Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 42961 approaching Kingmoor Down Yard with a class D goods



Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44146 takes the Canal Branch at Carlisle no 7 heading for Viaduct Yard with a class F goods.



The same 4F crossing the River Caldew on the Down Goods with Denton Holme Yard to the left and Viaduct Yard to the right.



Thompson B1 4-6-0 61095 crosses the WCML on the Up Waverley at Kingmoor Junction with an Up Class D freight from Portobello



The same B1 crosses the River Eden as it approaches Canal Junction.

Down freight on the Erewash Valley main line nearStoneyford Junction, Langley Mill
A typical Class H loose-coupled freight on this very busy line, headedby LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44054, August 1963. Photo by Ben Brooksbank.

Well done with that re-enaction depiction of a "classic UK" six-coupled engine on a loose-coupled freight duty spidernewth!

Deltic Power on the ECML - 1962

In 1962, BR assigned the new Type 5 Deltic Co-Co Diesels to the Flying Scotsman service from London to Edinburgh. From this year the non-stop expresses between the two capitals came to a halt because a stop was required to change out the footplate crew. The first and only stop of the down Flying Scotsman was at Newcastle. Despite a stop being introduced, BR was able to accelerate the service, which would now reach Edinburgh in six hours, almost an hour faster than the non-stop service hauled by steam locomotives.

Here, Deltic number 9003 "MELD" hauls the down Flying Scotsman between Chaloner's Whin junction and Dringhouses yard, to the south of York. The Deltics and their 100 mph top speed would dominate the ECML for almost two decades, until the advent of BR's 125 mph High Speed Train, the HST 125.

spidernewth2 said:

Down freight on the Erewash Valley main line nearStoneyford Junction, Langley Mill
A typical Class H loose-coupled freight on this very busy line, headedby LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44054, August 1963. Photo by Ben Brooksbank.

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Might I ask what track you're using in the shot?

Two Fours Heading North

Postwar era, 1946. Wearing its new Thompson number but still in wartime black, A4 Class 4-6-2 number 3 Andrew K McCosh is on the down main line at Dringhouses, south of York. On the down Church Fenton line is veteran O4 Class 2-8-0 number 3697 with a class H freight. Catering was reintroduced on ECML expresses late in 1945 but it would be 1948 before non-stop running was restored. Change is coming though, the lead coach behind the tender of Number 3 is a new Thompson steel panelled 3 compartment Brake Third. The A4 is the work of Camscott of Darlington Works.

Back in sixty-five

A 1965 version of a screenshot I posted in the UK Screenshots thread. During 1965 the winds of change are blowing at Ouston junction in County Durham. The Durham coalfield is contracting, British Railways is about to enter its corporate blue era and steam has under two years left on the NE Region. Here Deltic type 5 Co-Co diesel D9011 "Northumberland Fusiliers" brings a down 1N12 11:47 London Kings Cross to Newcastle express through the junction as a EE type 3 Co-CO diesel with braking tender comes off the Consett branch. A Q6 0-8-0 is about to take the chord for the Consett branch for Stella Gill with empty hoppers and a BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 is crossing the ECML with a Tyne Dock to Consett ore train.

The express is in maroon and mostly made up of BR Mk 1 coaches but I have inserted a Thompson catering core of FO, RK and SO, visible in the centre of the train. Despite being under twenty years old, BR conducted a purge of almost everything pre-nationalisation in the early/mid 1960s and while in reality the Thompson catering vehicles lasted longer than regular Thompson stock I doubt that they had any significant presence in ECML expresses by 1965. The EE type 3 would become ubiquitous across the north east but at first their lack of braking power when handling unbraked, loose coupled coal trains meant braking tenders were built to provide more stopping power. They certainly needed that stopping power if coming down the Consett branch from Morrison colliery at Annfield Plain. Morrison was one of the last collieries in NW Durham and lasted in to the 1970s, remaining rail connected at Oxhill. Stella Gill sidings and the coke works there were in their closing days by 1965. The collieries at Burnhope, Craghead, Sacriston and Edmondsley, which all fed by wagonway in to Stella Gill yard were either gone, or almost gone. The colliery at Beamish and the coal washery at Grange Villa would be almost the last traffic for the yard. The 9Fs have a year left to run on the Tyne Dock to Consett ore trains, being replaced in late 1966 by double-headed Type 2s (BR Class 24) until 1974. In trials to determine which diesels to use after the 9Fs, somehow BR NE Region put a single type 2 on to a test train of similar load to the ore trains (the ore trains themselves required locomotives with dual air pumps to keep the doors closed and to operate them). When the banking locomotive prematurely backed off, the type 2 took the full load while still on the incline and nearly "blew up". the necessity for double-heading was the immediate finding of the test.







This is a cloned and tweaked version of the TS12 built-in route Kings Cross to Newcastle

North Yorkshire Summer Saturday - 1960

A fine summer's day near the village of East Cowton in North Yorkshire, part of the British Railways NE Region. Someone is having trouble with their Austin 35 and is unlikely to be impressing the girls, previously attracted by the then rare ownership of a motor car. Their wait is interrupted by the thunder of an English Electric Type 4 diesel heading north past the Cowton station coal drops with an East Coast Main Line express train. The train is probably from Liverpool or Birmingham, since the senior management of the E Region were never impressed with the Type 4 and refused deliveries after the initial batch, preferring to wait for the arrival of the Type 5 Deltics. Gateshead shed on the NE Region received a batch in late 1959.





The route is a rolled back section of the TS12 built-in route Kings Cross to Newcastle. Cowton station closed to passengers in late 1958 and probably the locals never even noticed. Some of the small wayside stations on the York to Darlington section of the ECML had an appalling one train each way daily as far back as early in the LNER era. With the daily stopping service being an early morning train in both up and down directions a day trip to either Darlington or York for business or pleasure was impossible.

North Yorkshire Summer Saturday 1958

Using the same spot at Cowton and the same A35 having a touch of bad luck, or maybe they just like the location, an example of the old order passes, with an A3 Gresley Pacific doing what it was designed to do, haul an East Coast Main Line express passenger train. In 1958 it is made up of Thompson 63ft bogie stock, which by this date has largely made way for British Railways Mark 1 coaching stock. Being a summer Saturday it would be "all hands on deck" as far as turning out both motive power and coaches to accomodate the sheer numbers of people wanting to travel. In this era flying was very much the preserve of the wealthy and neither car ownership nor long distance travel by motor coach had yet seriously diminished the demand for long distance rail travel when it came to going on holiday.

Very evocative borderreiver!

Cowton North Yorkshire, 1944

Cowton in North Yorkshire on the East Coast Main Line. I was reading Yeadon's Named Trains on LNER Lines and his recollections of the Flying Scotsman and Aberdonian keeping their named status during WWII (though they had neither catering nor timings anything like their prewar days. Seventeen and even twenty bogies were not unknown. Here I have a J21 0-6-0 on a local goods backed from the slow line north of Cowton into the loop section which acted as the station yard headshunt so the signalman could let a through freight take the slow line on the four-track section, giving the passenger train a clear run through to Eryholme junction. A careworn B15 4-6-0 takes a fifty tank load of Admiralty WD tankers southbound on the up line. Guillemot in black livery brings a down ECML express bound for Edinburgh through the station. Despite "Is Your Journey Really Necessary?" posters across the country discouraging travel many thousands did feel it necessary, not least military servicemen and women going on leave.

A TANE RAILYARD

I've missed the Railyard feature since its demise - it was great when you didn't feel like doing much except gawp in admiration at your favourite content creators' work. So I created one of my own to put my favourite items in - a lot of it is of such high quality these days that it more than stands up to close inspection:
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re post #915 neville-hill

An excellent and original idea, vey nice presentation. Superb.

Many thanks.
evilcrow.

Quite the exhibition there neville_hill!

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Loco Coal and Stores Trip - Consett branch LNER 1935

Loco sheds needed supplies of loco coal, sand, spares, rags, lamp oil, grease and lubricating oil on a regular basis. Stations needed domestic coal, lamp oil, cleaning materials and stationery. Signal cabins needed domestic coal, lamp oil, and sometimes churns of water if not connected to the mains water supply. Most, if not all of this would come by stores trains. Here, probably on a Saturday morning, is a stores trip working up the Consett branch to Annfield Plain shed and stations/signal cabins as far as Consett's Carr House West. The train is short, but still close to the limit of what one of Worsdell's J24 (ex-NER Class P) 0-6-0s can haul unassisted up the steep grade from South Pelaw Junction. There will be empty loco coal wagons and wagons loaded with ash to take away. the NER had an ash ballast plant near Middlesbrough, so the ash clinker will not go to waste.

The J24 is captured at West Stanley on the bank from Shield Row station. The fireman will not be thrilled at getting this duty on a Saturday morning as it is no soft duty firing the six-coupled loco up the steep grade. He will be hoping to be back at Gateshead Borough gardens shed in time to nip home, wash and head out to watch Newcastle United play at home at 3 p.m.

WD 2-8-0 N&C near Greenhead

Greenhead between Gilsland and Haltwhistle on the Newcastle and Carlisle line! The first line to "cross the UK", even if it was "just" the relatively short distance between the two northern English cities. On the inaugural train many of the passengers were drenched in a downpour (open wagons), had to cross the Tyne by boat for the banquet (and return after quaffing a large amount of booze!) and did not make it back to Carlisle until "the wee small hours"! No record exists of how many times the driver was prevailed upon to stop en-route during the return run for a "comfort break". The WD looks to be the work of the late, great and greatly missed Andi06.