Class 31, 31549, receives attention from the engineers at Crag Hall, notice the heavy lifting jack in use, broken spring or shattered axlebox?
(image courtesy of Russ Pigott)
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Looks like they got it fixed – it’s now sat level on the 4 foot, running lights are on and the engineers are retiring to their carriage. (no doubt for tea and tiffin!).
(image courtesy of Russ Pigott)
Okay you railway buffs out there I know this is a train and I know it’s a steam train ’cos I can see the steam, but now I await you telling me more about it. That’s a WD on a train from Skinningrove at Huntcliffe, roughly where the ring shaped sculpture is, making a racket no doubt, it looks windy but the exhaust is been blasted skywards. Thank you Mark, I new some gentleman would come along and tell me all about it. (image courtesy of Eric Johnson)
I have it on good information that this is Saltburn viaduct, a steam train with a rake wagons filled with ironstone passing over it. (image courtesy of Eric Johnson)
Well I have been informed that it is Twizziegill culvert and the digging of the railway and this has now been confirmed by David Richardson.
You can see from this much earlier image how light and open the valley was originally. I wonder if the viaduct had been built with arched spans whether the problem would still have manifested itself. I’d need an engineer to tell me – is there an engineer in the house? Simon Chapman tells us: ” Kilton Viaduct opened for traffic in 1867 and was later filled in with shale to create a massive embankment so that mining could take place beneath it. During this work which took years, one of the pillars showed signs of stress possibly because of uneven tipping, so traffic over was stopped for a fortnight until the problem was remedied. So if the viaduct had been built with arches it would still have ended up as we see it today.” Thanks to Simon for the update.
A beautiful valley and an elegant structure, before the viaduct became unstable and was filled in with waste from the mine to create an embankment.
This postcard is a lovely example of early colour photography. The original was posted in Loftus on July 30, 1905.
X marks the spot not of treasure, but of the unsafe pillar of the viaduct that caused it to be filled in with spoil from the mines. (X marks the unsafe pillar of the Loftus to Carlin How Viaduct. The condition of the pillar lead to the creation of the culvert to house the Kilton Beck and the infilling of the viaduct with iron stone mining waste to create the embankment we still see today. – John G) Kilton Viaduct was infilled from 1907 to 1914 primarily so that ironstone could be worked from beneath it, particularly from the Carlin How mine. The picture was taken in 1911 when one pier cracked and train services were suspended for a fortnight while remedial action was taken. Thank you once again Simon Chapman
A pair of Class 20s, led by 20070, cross the new bridge at Carlin How with a train of loaded Potash Hoppers. Both locos are equipped with multiple working connections, the second man being the guard. Both locos in ”Small Arrow” livery, and it looks like the Thornaby Kingfisher on the side (thanks for the verification Russ – rodders). |
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