Fixing the track 2015-04-01--056
Two-foot gauge Hunslet 6348 (built 1975) Black Diamond is at the head of a track maintenance train on the Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway (also known as the QEII Country Park Narrow Gauge Railway) near Ashington in Northumberland.
The loco had worked at Vane Tempest Colliery in Seaham, County Durham, and was donated by British Coal to the Woodhorn Railway Museum (built on the site of Woodhorn Colliery) in 1993. Rather than it be a static exhibit, a short running line was built in the country park, and some "manriders" were acquired for passengers.
I'd first been here in the late 1990s, but as I was in the area and there was a gap of a few hours between trains I decided to have a look at what was going on, wondering if they were running trains - it was the school holidays, after all. They weren't open to the public, but there were volunteers present who were very friendly and even dragged their newest loco out of the shed for me to photograph (without me asking). But they were about to go and fix a dodgy bit of track, so I was able to photograph the maintenance train departing and then on the line.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.
Fixing the track 2015-04-01--056
Two-foot gauge Hunslet 6348 (built 1975) Black Diamond is at the head of a track maintenance train on the Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway (also known as the QEII Country Park Narrow Gauge Railway) near Ashington in Northumberland.
The loco had worked at Vane Tempest Colliery in Seaham, County Durham, and was donated by British Coal to the Woodhorn Railway Museum (built on the site of Woodhorn Colliery) in 1993. Rather than it be a static exhibit, a short running line was built in the country park, and some "manriders" were acquired for passengers.
I'd first been here in the late 1990s, but as I was in the area and there was a gap of a few hours between trains I decided to have a look at what was going on, wondering if they were running trains - it was the school holidays, after all. They weren't open to the public, but there were volunteers present who were very friendly and even dragged their newest loco out of the shed for me to photograph (without me asking). But they were about to go and fix a dodgy bit of track, so I was able to photograph the maintenance train departing and then on the line.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.