River Blyth on the Swale
The Hope Reach wharf on the River Swale, serving Queenborough Rolling Mills with imported steel shipped from Ukraine; former British Army of the Rhine (B.A.O.R.) Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic '871' (Works No.510 built in 1966) shunting the stockyard on 25th May 2001. Moored to the pier is the 'River Blyth' (launched in 2000 and registered in Antigua) which at the time was shipping Ukrainian billets approximately every six weeks. This stockyard area was at one time used as a holding area prior to the cutting up of condemned B.R. steam locomotives and rolling stock. A railway presence was first established here around 1905, primarily for handling incoming shipments of coal at the wharf from as far afield in the UK as Scotland. The original owners of the private railway at Queenborough, Settle Speakman, used a fleet of saddle tanks to work the system comprising B.R. exchange sidings, the branch alongside Hope Reach and its coal wharf, plus scrapyard sidings.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
River Blyth on the Swale
The Hope Reach wharf on the River Swale, serving Queenborough Rolling Mills with imported steel shipped from Ukraine; former British Army of the Rhine (B.A.O.R.) Andrew Barclay 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic '871' (Works No.510 built in 1966) shunting the stockyard on 25th May 2001. Moored to the pier is the 'River Blyth' (launched in 2000 and registered in Antigua) which at the time was shipping Ukrainian billets approximately every six weeks. This stockyard area was at one time used as a holding area prior to the cutting up of condemned B.R. steam locomotives and rolling stock. A railway presence was first established here around 1905, primarily for handling incoming shipments of coal at the wharf from as far afield in the UK as Scotland. The original owners of the private railway at Queenborough, Settle Speakman, used a fleet of saddle tanks to work the system comprising B.R. exchange sidings, the branch alongside Hope Reach and its coal wharf, plus scrapyard sidings.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission