For this one I've bent history a little and gone BR Blue (in reality the Durham-Bishop Auckland line closed in 1968) but it's certainly a very interesting "might have been".
The same location as the last shot in the previous set, but showing off a rake of the TC3 team's excellent Mk1s which just happened to be passing by...
The realigned trackwork at Hunwick looking north (I'm still not sure about that crossover, though) with shunting discs now in place. The line to the right is the one in the foreground of the first picture.
There's also now an InvisiCAB floating in front of the signal box for those "screenshot moments".
Looking south this time, a Gateshead based class 46 heads north with an ore train. I always did like the look of this style of headcode on these locos.
From memory the 46's were a little maligned in the North East around 1980 because as so many of them were based at Gateshead they appeared very regularly in the area. I did like them, though.
A very unusual visitor: the unique Tinsley based 47901 sits in one of the sidings at Hunwick with an MGR train.
A class 20 "Whistling Wardrobe" leads a short train of HTV hoppers towards Rough Lea Colliery as a Metro-Cammell DMU heads south with a local service. I saw one of these locos at the Swanage diesel gala in May; it brought back some great memories. :)
Incidentally there's an InvisiCAB in front of this signal box (Rough Lea Junction), too.
58001 heads north past the brickworks and colliery.
A couple more views of Perchpole's 46 north of Rough Lea. It's such a great looking model that it really does deserve a closer look! :)
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