Newsworthy at Newsham 20230603--099
60047 Faithful leads the Lynemouth to Newcastle leg of the Branch Line Society's "Tabs on the Tyne" through Newsham (one-time junction for the line to Blyth, in later years serving Bates Colliery). 66190 Martin House Children's Hospice is on the rear. [Pole, 4/6 sections (~5.4m)]
The tour ran as:
1Z27 07.26 Doncaster - ECML - Tyne Yard - Tyne Dock;
1Z28 12.15 Tyne Dock - Newcastle - Newsham - Bedlington - North Blyth Battleship Wharf (reverse) - Lynemouth (reverse) - Bedlington - Newsham - Newcastle;
1Z29 18.20 Newcastle - King Edward Bridge - East Boldon Up Loop - Hartlepool (Cliff House Up Loop) - Darlington (reverse at platform 3) - Doncaster.
For my final shot of this tour, I decided to try to include some of the mechanical signalling rather than get a shot of the train crossing one of the girder viaducts, as the line closes during August for the completion of track alterations and resignalling in preparation for the reinstatement of a passenger service and when it reopens the semaphores will have been removed. I initially thought about the triangle at Marchey's House, going into the field to get a shot of the signals south of Marchey's House Jn. (which I've done from the other side), but then it was suggested that this spot would be easier to get to if you were chasing the train; I'd attempted to photograph this signal a number of years ago, stood on ladders beside the level crossing and using a telephoto lens, but had not managed the shot in sun. So I came here (arriving with loads of time to spare as I'd not photographed the train leaving Lynemouth - which would have been possible), but hadn't checked the sun angle: by the time the train arrived, it was off the front - and it would have still been on the front at Marchey's House... But at least I have a picture of this signal, as freight trains on this route are not very common at the moment because the biomass trains stopped running again towards the end of May, having only restarted about five or six weeks earlier.
There were several people here to see this, some of whom were local residents.
Newsham is, of course, pronounced News-um (silent "h") not New-shum.
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Newsworthy at Newsham 20230603--099
60047 Faithful leads the Lynemouth to Newcastle leg of the Branch Line Society's "Tabs on the Tyne" through Newsham (one-time junction for the line to Blyth, in later years serving Bates Colliery). 66190 Martin House Children's Hospice is on the rear. [Pole, 4/6 sections (~5.4m)]
The tour ran as:
1Z27 07.26 Doncaster - ECML - Tyne Yard - Tyne Dock;
1Z28 12.15 Tyne Dock - Newcastle - Newsham - Bedlington - North Blyth Battleship Wharf (reverse) - Lynemouth (reverse) - Bedlington - Newsham - Newcastle;
1Z29 18.20 Newcastle - King Edward Bridge - East Boldon Up Loop - Hartlepool (Cliff House Up Loop) - Darlington (reverse at platform 3) - Doncaster.
For my final shot of this tour, I decided to try to include some of the mechanical signalling rather than get a shot of the train crossing one of the girder viaducts, as the line closes during August for the completion of track alterations and resignalling in preparation for the reinstatement of a passenger service and when it reopens the semaphores will have been removed. I initially thought about the triangle at Marchey's House, going into the field to get a shot of the signals south of Marchey's House Jn. (which I've done from the other side), but then it was suggested that this spot would be easier to get to if you were chasing the train; I'd attempted to photograph this signal a number of years ago, stood on ladders beside the level crossing and using a telephoto lens, but had not managed the shot in sun. So I came here (arriving with loads of time to spare as I'd not photographed the train leaving Lynemouth - which would have been possible), but hadn't checked the sun angle: by the time the train arrived, it was off the front - and it would have still been on the front at Marchey's House... But at least I have a picture of this signal, as freight trains on this route are not very common at the moment because the biomass trains stopped running again towards the end of May, having only restarted about five or six weeks earlier.
There were several people here to see this, some of whom were local residents.
Newsham is, of course, pronounced News-um (silent "h") not New-shum.
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.