North East Steam workings from West Hartlepool shed.

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This video has been re uploaded after making some corrections to the image quality.
Hope this makes for better viewing.
The content was filmed by me on an 8mm Bolex clockwork cine camera and most of the soundtrack was also recorded at the time of filming.
Locations include in and around West Hartlepool including the engine sheds, Billingham old station, Norton , Stockton, Bowesfield Junction, Thornaby, Eaglescliffe and Yarm.
The West Hartlepool shed was home to Q6, K1, 4MT 2-6-0, and WD 2-8-0 locomotives and the predominant traffic was goods and minerals, particularly coal.
There are shots of coal traffic on the inland route north of Hartlepool via Heselden bank which connected with several collieries in South Durham.
For variety I have included a couple of shots of rail tours which passed through this region.

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@johndinsdale4471 8 дней назад

Just when you think this steam collection couldn’t get any better you watch another and it does! Thanks again for sharing these treasures of our past.

@nigelterry9299 20 дней назад

Fabulous thanks! More tender 1st working than you'd think.

@johnbill9201 16 дней назад

Great video thanks for sharing love the tender first running, proper railways from in the day, J

@melvynwoodman5787 Месяц назад

Thanks for sharing. It started out good and steadily improved throughout. It sometimes seems like I imagined this whole world as everything is so different now and it’s great to see it looking so real.

@Blade1310 День назад

33:06 - walked along there just yesterday. Seaton Carew into town. Lovely!

@Michelle-fy7vj 22 дня назад

Wow what an amazing video thanks so much for sharing.

@richardjoyce3612 Месяц назад

Brilliant vid, many thanks, the good old days of steam eh....

@johndrew3202 25 дней назад

Superb cine film, especially with the authentic sound! How the area has changed in 50 years, how did we live in those days? Real memories which were fading.

@johndinsdale4471 27 дней назад

Wonderfully nostalgic sights and sounds of the era and place I grew up in. Good of you to make it come alive for us all again. Many thanks.

@thestocktonflyer4059 19 дней назад

I grew up in Stockton. And worked at the ICI amazing place amazing people. And an excellent video. Thank you 😊

@Tom-Lahaye 28 дней назад

Outstanding! Image and sound quality are still very good after the years. I checked some of the locomotives allocations on BR database and after extracting a time snapshot it suggested that this must be filmed around 1966? Some J27s in the film which were of another shed, you know which one? Surprising number of WD/8s still around, we had them in the Netherlands after the war too and despite not being the strongest 4 coupled locomotive in the fleet regarding tractive effort they were known to be very free steaming, never exhausted of steam even on heavy coal trains in the province of Limburg where there were hills and steep inclines in the coal mining area. One of the Dutch locomotives, WD79257, NS4464 and then sold to Sweden numbered SJ1932 ended up preserved at the K&WVR as 90733.

@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv 28 дней назад

Hello I shot this film in 1966/7 The J27 65833 was from Sunderland shed and visits this far south i.e. to Tees Yard were not common. They did regularly bring coal down to the north bank of the Tees on to the Haverton Hill branch at Billingham I believe for use in a power station. Interesting history you provided on the WD 2-8-0s coincidentally I have taken video of 90733 on the Worth Valley railway. These engines on BR were not the most popular with photographers here but handled the jobs they were given well. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@XxBec3509 29 дней назад

Lovely old film, thanks for sharing.

@philipeldridge7346 Месяц назад

Thank you for capturing these memories!

@derekferguson385 28 дней назад

Love the sounds as they move along. 😊

@ianthomsonnewman4048 3 дня назад

Working in the cab of a tender-first J27 hauling coal in md-winter on a windswept Northumberland moorland makes me shudder even more than I am right now at 900 meters up towards the Andes in early July..

@davidpage6470 Месяц назад

Excellent.

@Backwardlooking Месяц назад

Used to watch the locomotives at Rosegrove Shed Burnley and the W.D.2-8-0’s hauling similar coal trains from the local pits. Another world.

@davidblurton7158 28 дней назад

very good,,,,

@gainsbourg66 28 дней назад

Every so often a really good film comes along. Steam captured as it truly was.

@rorymacve 26 дней назад

Fantastic video of a unique part of British railway history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the WD Austerity 2-8-0 and 2-10-0?

@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv 25 дней назад

Hello , Glad you liked my video. I posted this and others on you tube in order to share my experience of filming different locations, subjects and variety of steam locomotives to be found. It was not my intention to pass these on to others in part or as a whole and therefor regretfully I cannot help you. Peter.

@rorymacve 25 дней назад

@@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv Hi Peter, Thank you for your response and I understand completely. Thanks again for sharing your videos regardless, as my dad is from Tyneside this footage strikes a particular chord with me. :) All the best, Ruairidh

@johnrees 27 дней назад

Happy Days ......... just as i remember Hartlepool shed

@larx4074 Месяц назад

Absolutely marvellous!! Oh to be able to see it all again.... now where is that time machine....??

@johnbristow8099 27 дней назад

Great video with lovely sound.

@modeltrainsandtracks Месяц назад

Watching the locos around the old shed was classic - I'm guessing the WD 2-8-0s and similar 'modern' locos would get through those doors? I can understand the NER design as Winters can be harsh up there and I'm guessing the shed design helped!

@modeltrainsandtracks Месяц назад

Ooops - that was "wouldn't get through those doors"....

@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv Месяц назад

Hi, Thanks for your comments. The Q6 is seen emerging from the roundhouse which by design had a turntable to turn the engines as required. There was no provision to do this in the shed yard. I only ever saw Q6 engines in the roundhouse but if the turntable was long enough I see no reason other types could not use it. The straight shed was semi derelict and would not be a safe environment to work in and most engines seemed to be stabled outside. Which begs the question where was the maintenance done?

@christophersheward9266 23 дня назад

Those Q6 engines were powerfull but boring if you where a train spotter !

@davidty2006 15 дней назад

Not anymore since theres only now 1 left.

@tanker1425 Месяц назад

this locomotive looks very rusty

@cathybrind2381 29 дней назад

By the end of steam most locos in the UK looked dirty and rusty . That's how it was. Please don't imagine that those nice clean examples you see on preserved railways are anything like the reality of the i960s. That's why various model railway mags and websites talk so much about the need for weathering to get a better look.

@tanker1425 29 дней назад

@@cathybrind2381 that's sad though why didn't they repaint them

@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv 28 дней назад

Hi, Just to add to the previous comment, by the 1960's steam was on the way out and the railways were needing to make cost savings. Keeping these locos clean is very labour intensive and therefor costly. Also repainting was only done when the engines went into the workshops for overhaul. and by 1965 there was only one workshop carrying out steam repairs and this was at Darlington. This closed the following year so most of the engines in service up to the end of steam had not received general overhaul for many years. In fact it was remarkable that they kept going for so long. As a footnote towards the end of steam in was not unusual to see some clean locos and this was thanks to groups of photographers who with the co operation of shed staff did the cleaning themselves in order to get that perfect shot.

@tanker1425 28 дней назад

@@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv Thanks that's very interesting!