I remember many years ago coming round Bowesfield Jcn from Thornaby with a DMU and just passing B903 was the last 2 tankers on an oil train!! I could never understand how this could happen
great footage, thats the industrial teeside I left 20 yrs since, once run across the black pipe at 36.25 for a dare !!! crosses the old cuckoo line to Thorpe Thewles and on to castle eden !!!
with the closure and demolition of Redcar works in 2022 this video now becomes an important historical record of the works, the railway lines and the mixed traffic that moved in the area. R.I.P. steel-making in the North East of England.
some captions with names of junctions and stations passed thru even disused ones would have made this video into a decent one. watch one of hastingdmu videos.
Just finished watching this some 5 years after it was published. I get the feeling it was shot in 16:9 format from various clues but it showed on screen in 4:3 (12:9) format. do I have RU-vid wrongly configured? The clues are the height-to-width ratio of the other passing rolling stock. They all look 'thin' hence guessing the original 16:9 format. Other clues are the circular track-side signs - they are oval.
Another comment from the US. Previously you gave me some signal box names on another run (Benton Jct to Blyth) and I was wondering if you could take the time to give the names of the 7 or 8 boxes I saw on this run. We called them interlocking towers. It's so nice to see some of the old girls with levers still working hard. Here in the states, they are pretty much all gone. That fact that they are still working there is a tribute to their design and engineering. Another observation, I've noticed in a lot of these videos is that there are boxes on each leg of the triangle at junctions, something that wasn't done much here that I know of. The Redcar industrial area sure would make an interesting prototype for a model railroading layout. Finally, your engines sure sound a lot like our Electro-Motive (General Motors) GP-9's, first-generation diesel's. Wonder if General Motors was behind the class engines you were operating. Thank you for sharing your really neat video's. Looking for more!!! And I love it when you do both directions. :-)
@ Paul Thompson 5'37 - Grangetown (code letter G); 10'39 - Whitehouse (w); 13'54 - Middlesborough (M); 25'13 - Bowesfield (B); 33'29 - Norton-on-Tees South (NS); 34'30 - Norton-on-Tees West (NW). If you spotted others, then those have been abandoned. Hope this is of assistance to you. Our class 59 and 66 locos were built by GM/EMD in London, ON; La Grange, IL or Muncie, IN so your ears are still good!
Shame you won't be doing that run anymore. Can't believe the government let the place get moth balled. You can see all the hoppers in the sidings at eaglescliff when you go over the flyover just lined up in rows, must of hit EWS pretty hard??
@@KennyQ08 It would be nice to see more traffic and tonnage come out of that area. Tees Dock is seeing an increase in container services and Dawson's at Middlesborough an increase in traffic. Hopefully there is more in the pipeline.
Greetings from the United States. We enjoyed your video very much...is it only the engine or are you pulling other cars too, beautiful scenery of your country. We also enjoyed the return trip video, very relaxing. Thank you for sharing!
