One for the train buffs.

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The Ashington Black Bridge Gallery (its grey close up!)
From the top..signal box and the line leading out over the black bridge

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The picture that involved crawling through the bankside undergrowth the most...

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Similar to Irn Bru but made in England not Scotland from Girders!

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The rest

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[mickthemaverick]

The bridge at Wolsingham:

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[CitroJim]

All about the Weardale Railway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weardale_Railway

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Once upon a time in Weardale

Very appropriately a Station Wagon at Stanhope Station

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[CitroJim]

Excellent pictures Neil

Here's one of Wolsingham Station... This is not the original, that's now a private house so I did not take any of it... Shame it's still not part of the railway as it's a very fine building. The new station building is functional and OK but not as architecturally pleasing as the original..

The platform at Wolsingham is very long.. Big enough for a ten coach train we think...

And what the photographer in the above photo might have been taking...

Very pretty and like the rest of the area, very well kept and clearly well loved...

[mickthemaverick]

I think the photographer was actually taking this one:

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But then he spotted potential for a new " T junction to the left " roadsign

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I like the orange background signage with the white lettering, which I hope to mimic for my very own construction in homage to the box at ALston.

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[mickthemaverick]

The information board on site:

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[CitroJim]

Loving that 'opposite' pictures of us Mick

Another signal box we spotted on our trip... Had no choice really as we had to wait for two trains to cross... Not that we minded at all...

Manual gates... And here's the signaller opening them...

Seems she find the whole job a bit of a headache...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Another signal box we spotted on our trip... Had no choice really as we had to wait for two trains to cross... Not that we minded at all...

Interesting, you have visited in real life this one I posted up as being an example of the NER type S5 signal box which was exactly the type plonked on top of the new brick structure at Alston

This is an example of the NER type S5 signal box this time single story like the one plonked ontop of the brick base at Alston. Nice simple looking construction.


Cattal Signal Box and Crossing, North Yorkshire. by Adrian Nicholls, on Flickr

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[CitroJim]

What is amazing Neil, is that only now, looking at your Flickr photo did I see the semaphore signals... Despite being sat there for around ten minutes I completely failed to see them!

[mickthemaverick]

To prove it really is a working crossing:

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The real life fake signal box shed, based loosely on the signal box at Alston makes progress. Saw a tin of exterior primer/undercoat lying around with a bit left in and painted one of the window frames constructed out of salvaged roofing battens. Still plenty to do but it was not entirely pointless slapping a bit of paint on at this stage, gives a better impression of what the finished article, should it ever be completed, might look like as a bit of an aim and encouragement.

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The Alston Box

[CitroJim]

That's looking awesome Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This looks nicely distressed, and its the white lettering on an orange background, has every chance to be an original, now resident upstairs in Northern Edge Coffee Roasters in Berwick.

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