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Keeping with the drift. Pickering Station the Southern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors had gas lighting still fitted when the NYMR moved in. Levisham even had oil lamps for platform lighting until fairly recent times. Both station though aere now fitted out with these new fangle electirc...

Whilst there are no to my knowledge gas light carriages still actively gas lit. Several Buffet cars [even Mk 1s] have gas powered kitchens. The LNERCA [based on the NYMR] are at present in the process of restoring East Coast Joint Stock 3rd class diner 189, whilst it will "appear" to have gas...

There's still quite a monster tank with a stone/brick built base at Newcastle Central. The North Yorkshire Moors inherited a small tank wit a stone base and available via Hornby and their Hogwarths/skaledale range.

With Readybrek a breakfast/all day special. Certainly make you glow in the dark o_O :D;)!

Actually the now preserved Tanfield was a "freight only" [coal trains] part of the National network and had a flat crossing of the NCB Bowes railway at Marley hill. The sheds they use were part of the Bowes outfit, hence the cord they use to access the Tanfield branch. The car park at Marley is...

And the irony is the firat winter after the new wonder road opened and the line closed it was snowed in and Alston was cut off!

It's not just the motive power Diesels, electrics or DMUs/EMUs either. Speaking of rolling stock based here in the North East, the demise of the loose coupled 21 tonner coal wagons and their replacements the various air braked MGRs. Both replaced by for want of a better term the Bogie MGR...

There are 3 ex ROD 2-8-0 Great Central designed locos in Australia. At least one of which saw service here in the UK [on the LNWR IIRC] before being sold to an Australian coal mining company, as "Army Surplus" in the early twenties. Edit: As well as the one I mentioned above I believe many...

One remark that always tickles me, is the one made by the Late Alan Peglar. Given the chance he'd have preferred to preserve Papyrus instead. But the Americans couldn't say Papyrus! Which was also the faster of the none streamlined Gresley Pacific's, being built new as an A3 "Super Pacific" the...

Indeed yes, whilst the principals are the same each has it's own characteristics [even within the same class]. For example on my Railway [as I'm as member] the NYMR they have "Lucie" a former Belgium vertical boilered shunter [an 0-4-0] and a class 9F 92134 [a 2-10-0] two totally different...

Having over the years tried to join the railways and failed. I tend to take the view, these days.- "Don't mix business and pleasure." in so much as at the end of the day I can just walk away until tomorrow. Granted I know several fellow/other members of the North Yorkshire Moors who are or were...

Just been thinking/remembering. You can see sections of the Esk Valley [Middlesbrough-Whitby] that were built for double track, but were only ever were single. OK the sections from 'Boro to Nunthorpe and Grosmont to Whitby were formerally double track, but the rest was single with passing loops...

The Worth Valley Railway earthworks were built to take a double track line. But the line stayed as a single line branch.

Even the LNER stopped "supporting" Newcastle, as they changed the Locomotive's name to the Essex Regimento_O!

There are multiple stations on the T & W Metro, Felling - Gateshead Stadium, Bede - Simonside, Ilford Road - South Gosforth. To name but three combinations..........

Tanfield are re-opening as of tomorrow [17/4/21] with a restricted pre-book partial service running from East Tanfield to Andrews House [Marley Hill] with out stopping at Causey Arch, or running onto Sunnisides. Unfortunately the engine shed/yard area at Marley Hill is closed to the public at...

Must admit I'd forgotten both Gateshead and Jesmond double names. Wouldn't care but Gateshead Stadium is the next station to mine, Felling when I head towards Newcastle........

West Monkseaton and Monkseaton on the Tyne & Wear Metro

I suppose for me it would be glimpsing 92220 Evening Star in the Goods Shed at Haworth on the Worth Valley. That'd be about 1972-3, before she was recalled by the National Railway Museum for the opening of the "New" Railway Museum at York in 1975. Or seeing 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley not long before...

I could remember exactly, but yes you've confirmed my memory Ploughman.