Coal Railways of the North-East (with Nick Richardson) - Railway Mania PODCAST #31
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Nick joins us again for the second half of this double-bill about collieries and coal railways of North East England. Nick goes into detail on 3 distinct railway systems; The Bowes, Lambton and Harton lines.
Thanks again to Nick for being an excellent guest!
To see more on the railways and machines featured go to:
Bowes Railway
bowesrailway.uk/
Lambton Loco Trust
lambtonlocomoti...
Tanfield Railway
www.tanfield-r...
Beamish Museum
www.beamish.or...
North Tyneside Steam Railway
stephensonstea...
BOWES LINE - Film by the NCB
• Bowes Line (1975)
'END OF THE LINE' Harton Electric Coal Railway by British Coal Television
• 'END OF THE LINE' Hart...
RAILSCENE - Harton Electric Railway
• HARTON ELECTRIC RAILWA...
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I bloody love these episodes with Nick. The pair of you could talk all day, I'd still listen enthralled the whole way through.
Thank you so much! We are planning more episodes together so hope to have more soon!
love to watch these, its such a shame that more don't see these. Can't wait for the next one!
My dad and I worked Blackhams Hill, level crossing on the rope haulage incline, in the early 1980s. We were working the crossing on the day of the runaway, when six wagons broke free of the haulage cable and went off on their own down the incline.
That's a scary thought - was there a method to derail runaways? Thank you for your comment!
@@RailwayManiaNet Perhaps in the original working days of Bowes, there were catch points that could derail a train, but when I was there, you just got out of the way and waited until they stopped somewhere.
I reckon you should do one in the narrow gauge slate railways (EG: penryhn, ffestiniog) as those are quite interesting
I absolutely agree!
Fantastic episode
Perhaps you should do one on the Iornstone lines of the Midlands. They were all privately owned, some standard gauge, some narrow.
A pair of absolutely amazing videos. Really enjoyed them. Interesting Nick mentioned Harry Friend he did part of my footplate training when i was at Thornaby in early 80s. Im pretty sure monkton coke works lasted until late 80s im sure it was still there when i was driving Newcastle Middlesbrough DMUs
Hope you and Nick do more videos together
Thanks so much and really glad you liked it. I agree that Nick is an excellent guest, we are planning to do more episodes together soon.
Excellent video, very informative and well-presented.
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
@@RailwayManiaNet Hi there, will there be more Sudrian Histories posters in the future.
amazing ||!!
The origin of the name Philadelphia is supposedly true - and the local cricket ground was known as 'Bunker Hill' (not sure if that name has now died out or not, but you can see it labelled as such on maps going back to the 1880s at least). I'm just old enough to remember the wagon works at Philadelphia still in operation as well as the local area NCB motive power depot. As a kid, even had a ride on the footplate of the 'Sir Nigel Gresley' A4 that was kept there for a few years in the 1970s. It was a huge site. Barely a mark on the landscape to show where all that industry once stood......
Interesting background history of the North East collieries. A pity the Bowes Railway ceased running trains over 10 years ago. They had big plans to run trains down the inclines but everything is overgrown now and abandoned.
really need to do railway at war !!!! pleaaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeeeeee