ARMSTRONG, EBCHESTER, CO. DURHAM WFH180S a Leyland Leopard PSU3E/4R with Plaxton Supreme body came from National Travel West in 1983. It was new in 1978 to National Travel (South West) Ltd.
Best viewed Original size (1280 x 853 pixels). A series of images illustrating some of the railway operations at the British Steel Corporation's plant at Consett (formerly Consett Iron Company), County Durham - c.1972. Featured (amongst other things) are the following: Loco No 39 - Rolls-Royce/Sentinel 0-6-0DM (RR 10289/1970) Loco No 38 - Thomas Hill 4WD (TH 224V/1970) Loco No 17 - Hunslet 0-6-0DM (HE 5375/1958) Loco No 32 - Rolls-Royce/Sentinel 0-6-0DM (RR 10286/1969) Loco No 37 - Thomas Hill 4WD (TH 223V/1970) Steam Crane "E No 9" - 2-4-0VBCr ( RS 2854/1898) Please do not share or post elsewhere without permission of the copyright holder(s). © 2022 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm monochrome negative. - - - - - -
Disused Stations: Consett Station
Leadgate Community History Club
The Bus Gallery
Photographs I took of what was left of the Consett steelworks in 1981.My channel on you tube : http://www.youtube.com/alanheath is one of the most prolific f...
Consett Ironworks - ingots coming from the re-heat furnace in the 1960s. Arthur Phillipson Collection. 186006 From the Beamish Collections.
Courtesy of Peter Horsman - Co Durham in old pictures - Facebook
Photographs of the County Durham steel town, taken by a local newspaper photographer from 1949 to 1979. They were acquired as part of Julian Germain's Steel Works project
Not my greatest pic, being taken on a miserable day, with winter coming on, Wednesday 20th October 1976. It is semi-interesting however, because it records the final, National Bus Company phase of a well-known local independent, Venture Transport of Consett. I no longer possess the print of this photograph, so don't know details of the vehicle; however I believe it was of the Leyland Leopard/Alexander combination. According to the interesting flow chart at the beginning of Ray Stenning's A National Bus Company Album, Venture disappeared into Northern General at the end of 1975, at the same time as Tynemouth & District and Sunderland District. If so, this must be a late survival of the Venture fleetname. The location is Marlborough Crescent Bus Station, Newcastle.
Raglanshirt Consett Strickset
