Not a very exciting picture, but it was the last ever wagon to come out of Shildon works
I quite liked this small layout
Sunderland trams all say Shop at Binns!
1924 12/15 "Duck's Back" Alvis
Coal Drops
Passing a Token
Sans Pareil itself
Hackworth's House is part of the museum complex
As is this shed - although few people seemed to get this far
The lighting was very poor
These two brake vans were the passenger accomodation
I missed the trams by about 10 years but I do remember Binns - the shop as on both sides of Fawcett Street with a tunnel linking the two
This car belonged to Tom Rolt, Author, one of the founders of the Inland Waterways Association and Manager of the Talyllyn railway. The car was probably the first private vehicle to drive on the M1 (he was researching a leaflet for John Laing at the time)
Wagons were hauled or shunted to the top and then the coal could literally drop down
The next section of track is single line, to make sure you don't meet something head-on you can only proceed if you have the token for the line (there's another example in the Tanfield Railway pictures).
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