What a blast from the past of my local line. I was born in '72 and just about remember when the Tyne Valley line initially headed west on the north side of the Tyne (via Scotswood), rather than as now, on what was the freight only line on the south of the Tyne. I just watched a cab ride video of the same line back in 1987 when the Class 156 super sprinters had just come into service. 37 years later and those same Class 156s are still used on the route!

These films are one of the best ways to look back to Britain in the 1960s. Thanks to Alan and his wife for this marvellous collection of memorabilia.

iv cycled and walked this route loads great to see trains on it

Stocksfield sidings were always full of milk wagons. A great sight to behold.

@AlanSnowdonArchive

2 жыл бұрын

So I suppose the country to the west of Stocksfield must have contained lots of dariary farms, producing milk for the folks in Newcastle.😋

Very interesting, thanks!

Love these old cini films , a real look back at historic scenes now gone that were common place, Thank you for uploading these films.

Excellent

Thank you for this! I've cycled this route for as long as I can remember. I always wondered what it looked like when the trains were running!

@AlanSnowdonArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam, great Isle of Man photography on your kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGuOpdOTeJqygbg.html. You may enjoy seeing archive footage of my 4 old IoM films on this playlist kzread.info/head/PL8-7_QXSriLjZe1Ul7XVrruOJkRoxIEJx

Brilliant ! Brought back a lot of fond memories, many thanks.

Good days...thanks for sharing.

Another excellent video...thank you both (you're a good team). I appreciate the commentaries, especially when it's a line or route I don't know. I look forward to more of your informative presentations. Regards. Rob.

Thank you for a flood of memories...

Thank you both very much 👍🥳

Just stumbled upon your videos and love them! I used to live in Riding mill for a number of years ( long after the goods siding was closed! ). My mam and Dad had a retirement bungalow right where the siding goes off to the right! I guess I should have done some digging in their back garden..might have found some railway treasure! I used to walk and cycle the North Wylam line regularly, it's a wonderful route for an easy cycle...perfectly flat all the way from Newcastle Business park to Prudhoe with minimal need to go onto roads. East of Newcastle business park you can follow the quayside to St Peters where you can join the old Riverside line all the way to WIllington Quay

Fascinating and charming. Thanks.

Just found this, my grandfather was signalman at Fourstones and remember going into the box as a young child. There is hardly anything railway left at Fourstones now and not many photographs of what it was like.

Thanks for a great set of videos, much appreciated

Excellent thanks you. Love to live along there somewhere

Thank you for posting, really interesting to see the Wylam wagon way and North Wylam station.

Great little video brings back memories of one of my first trips along that line to Carlisle....thanks for sharing.......Tony

Fantastic film- thank you!

The narrator's voice is super nice.

Heather’s voice is very pleasing indeed!

Remember walking across the North Tyne bridge and along the track with my grandad shortly after the line closed to traffic. Couldn't shake the idea that a train would be along at any moment. Also faint memories of the sidings by Prudhoe and at Stocksfield. Thanks for the video!

@jmobem5383

5 жыл бұрын

To clarify: into Wylam. The bridge, a public path, is available in model form.

A lovely walk/bike ride over wylam (Hagg Bank) bridge along the old route into Newcastle to this day. Changed somewhat though i think i prefer the way it used to look.Its a shame much of the infrastructure has gone and sad to see the border counties box in a sorry state. Great video thank you for sharing.

My uncle used to work in Lloyds in Hexham, I used to have some pics of his from the old Haltwhistle line and I never really grew to appreciate the area til I did a turn as gunnery instructor at Otterburn not far away.

What is so good about this film is that the Newcastle & Carlisle has changed so much less in 50 years than other lines in Britain. Most of the historic stations remain as does the signalling with historic signalboxes. The landscape isn't any different for the most part. By contrast the Settle & Carlisle declined, was nearly closed, and the stations fell out of use and have been restored (see the Snowdons' film of the S&C in 1967). The north of the Tyne route into Newcastle, taken in 1963, was replaced in the 1970s by the reopening to passengers line south of the river via Blaydon.

Thank you. Philip

Superb.Thanks.

Very interesting!

I recognize the little train it had an engine resembling a bus and went on it from Carlisle to Brampton in 1967

@DavidR_192

2 ай бұрын

Class 101. They were the stalwart of North Ease local rail services, up until the mid-80s.

Wonderful stuff my families homeland

Great footage this! Such a shame it misses out Newburn and lemington. But wonderful coverage of everywhere else

@nickkerr2711

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I lived in Newburn when I was small and was hoping to see a bit of it. We used to run onto the footbridge to get covered in steam and smoke when the engines ran around and took the coal train down to the power station. We had to make our own amusement in those days , of course!

I remember locking the North Wylam station keys in the booking office [1964!]

@colinpercy3814

6 жыл бұрын

Wylam Parish Council is looking to put together memories (and hopefully photos) of the Scotswood to Wylam line and the station at North Wylam this summer, given it is 50 years on 11 March since closure to passengers. Did you work there and could we perhaps talk to you? Colin Percy at colinwpercy@gmail.com.

Aveling Barford was once Rochester on the Medway's largest employers with the easily spotted "Invicta" traction engines, little trace left of a company that motivated an empire.

Wonderful footage. I have to beg to differ with the people who say the Tyne Valley line is "completely unchanged" - the rural scenery is the same, the railway infrastructure is utterly decimated. It's more or less plain-line all the way from Newcastle West to Carlisle. Such a shame that it's a succession of such short bursts of recording - but I suppose 8mm film was a scarce resource back then!

I have to look quickly - and sometimes freeze frame to study - but the cinematographer seems to have just about caught all the interesting bits! Definitely skilfully done with excellent thought for what might be of interest in the future. Do you have any film of the south side of the river - via Blaydon? And do you have any film of the North Tyneside Loop line (what we have as the Metro today?)

enjoyed. even the music was nicely dated...

Where is that big hill at 3.35?

@AlanSnowdonArchive

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it's NOT a big hill, it's a "PIT HEAP" - the stuff dug out of a coal mine which wasn't coal, and wouldn't burn. Every pit had one, some even supported lots of weeds. But after the coal mines were closed the pit heaps were gradually dismantled to be used on construction work where filler was needed. Lots of new roads were laid on top of it too. The construction industry was, I'm told, was very glad to be able to use this ideal material.

@leondavin5193

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlanSnowdonArchive thanks. It had me baffled. It looked huge

North Wylam line ? Never heard of it ! So they spent a lot of money diverting the line away from a tunnel in 1961 then closed it in 1968 !?

@AlanSnowdonArchive

7 жыл бұрын

No! they didn't close the line where the tunnel is. It's part of the present route between Newcastle and Carlisle. If you return to the video, at 3mins 10sec it is explained that "we turn from the original N and C line . . ." It was from this point towards Newcastle, along the line we traverse, that was closed in 1968. When composing the title for one's video one must be able to fit a lot into a few words - or the end words will be lost. It would be more correct to say 'The line through North Wylam' but there ain't enough space available.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Green it was the bridge over the Tyne at Scotswood that had the line shift back to the south bank of the Tyne passed what is now the Metro Centre. This occurred in the early 1980s.

George Stephenson was not the father of railways ! Richard Trevithick was !

@AlanSnowdonArchive

7 жыл бұрын

I suggest you consult Wikipedia. Yes, Richard Trevitick was a great early pioneer of steam locomotives and early industrial railways but George Stephenson is the man usually described (as in Wikipedia) as the 'Father of Railways' being the Engineer for both the Stockton & Darlington, and for the Liverpool and Manchester. Both being the first truly PUBLIC railways, rather than tied to particular industries.

@Sam_Green____4114

7 жыл бұрын

. Wikipdia is not always correct ! Unfairly describe as the Father of Railways is George Stephenson . Of we all know who was the real father ! Richard Trevithick of course !

@marklloyd3536

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Green No we don’t.

@PeaveyPV20

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha always someone splitting hairs. Richard trevithick may have been a steam pioneer but not a railway pioneer. He was not the force behind the first passenger railway in the world as Stephenson and hackworth were

Excellent