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Teesside Municipal Transport 12 was a Sunbeam F4A new to Reading Corporation in 1961. Seen here on 22 March 1969, not long after acquisition, it only lasted a couple of years, the whole system finishing in April 1971. Also long-gone is that Humber Sceptre Mark 3, almost new here; bearing a Dorset registration, it was a fair way from home.
Scanned from a negative in my collection.
We were staying just down the road from here, on what turned out to be a delightful holiday. My options for photography were limited, and for the first two mornings there were no early potash trains running.
However, an STP path went in for this train to run Wednesday to Friday, which enabled me to get a shot and return to 'The Beachcomber' before Claire woke up.
On the horizon from left to right are some classics of Teesside industry - Wilton, Lackenby Steelworks, Teesport, South Bank and finally Redcar Steelworks. The whole area is being successfully redeveloped, most of the redundant structures will disappear during the next few years. There are local heritage groups campaigning to save the Dorman Long coal hopper and Redcar blast furnace which could be incorporated into the new schemes as a tribute to the past when at one time there were 91 blast furnaces in the area.
6F31 07.10 Tees Dock to Boulby potash empties.
British Steel Redcar Steelworks (BSC Teesside) - Hudwell Clarke 0-4-0ST 'Mirvale' (Works No 1882/1955) and Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Lion' (Works No 1351/1914) haul a retired 370 ton molten steel torpedo away from the Blast Furnace on the Hot Metal Road during a FTP photo charter on 19th October 1996
Dominated by the 367 foot high Blast furnace - 'Mirvale' and Lion are heading away from the molten steel tapping bay. This occasion was organised by Freight Train Productions in collaboration with BSC Staff and Foxfield & Middleton Railways.
Very much an unrepeatable scene sadly!
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Pushing coke into the coke car at the South Bank coke ovens, Middlesbrough. This was the second coke oven plant at South Bank and consisted of 88 ovens split into two batteries of 44. The plant was the first in Britain to have chambers exceeding 5 metres in height and was built by Gibbons Wilputte in 1971-2. The whole site has recently been demolished.
I've always liked this view of the former Teesside Steelworks blast furnace at Redcar.
This is how the view looks from the single-track road on Teesmouth's South Gare at Warrenby.
When it was up and running, this behemoth on the landscape was amazing. You could drive past and not only see the molten metal being poured, you could also feel the heat!
These days, it stands cold and silent, ever since the steelworks closed in 2915.