Wylam Brewery / Exhibiton Park
The Old Science Museum now Wylam Brewery at the Exhibition Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne. England.
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William Hedley 1813 Wylam Train
William Hedley 1813 Wylam Steam Train at Beamish Museum pulling a couple carriages and also releasing excess pressure from the boiler
The Mines of Wylam (11th May 2017)
11th May 2017
I go for a stroll around Wylam seeking out some of the former pits that I know about. I am not a historian so I may have some things wrong and some of the locations are approximations based on old maps. Similarly, my family history overlaps many of the sites... you won't believe how much family history I cut out of this video... just can't help talking about it.
For my branch of the family, Wylam is considered our ancestral home because my paternal line has been living there for nearly 250 years. Although I no longer live in the village, many of my family still do.
These are all sites that I am very familiar with and have visited many many times in the past.
I hope you enjoy.
Approximation of my route (I added a few extra miles on because I had other family business to do in Wylam):
I didn't actually explain who Timothy Hackworth was... He was one of the 4 men who designed Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam train in the world - now located in the Science Discovery museum in London) and helped come up with the idea of using metal rails to support the weight of the steam train... thus inventing the modern railway. The other men involved were Christopher Blackett, William Hedley and the one that always gets written out of history was Jonathon Forster.
Additions from my family after they watched the video:
The bit of brick wall on rift mine that I wasn't sure about whether it belonged to the mine or the cottages belonged to the mine. There was originally a second brick wall running parallel and it formed the foundation for an iron and wooden structure that held the winding wheel. There was some confusion about the cottages because I was describing them above the pit meaning above the hill. Just to clear up that confusion, the cottages were south of the pit. The coal from this mine along with the coal from the second mine on the other side of Rift Farm were both processed at Anne pit.
The pill box was housed by Poles but they lived in separate accommodation and they also manned a search light for spotting bombers coming up the Tyne.
The wooden structure that I spotted where the Bell mine buildings were located belonged to a some sheds that were used by the farm for storing horse drawn farming equipment, quite possibly taken over by the farm after the mine closed.
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EP 1 Wylam to Bywell - The Grand Tour of Northumberland
9th September 2018
Join us on our walk of historic Northumberland as we begin our hike in the Tyne Valley at Wylam. Packed full of history and beautiful scenery. UK hiking at its best in England's least populated county.
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The Grand Tour of Northumberland is 480 miles from Wylam to Morpeth, snaking around the Northumberland countryside trying to fit in as many points of interest as possible.
Section 1: Wylam to Bywell
In this section we cover the railway heritage of Wylam, pass two former collieries, visit a Norman castle as well as seeing another, two Anglo-Saxon church towers, the birth place of three famous Northumbrians, one of the oldest railways in the world, and one of the oldest thru-arch bridges in the world.
Not every section will be this jam packed with historical interest, some will celebrate the Northumbrian countryside... But every section will have at least one point of interest, most have more than one. So please subscribe so that you don't miss any of the next 52+ walks.
To be continued...
Section 2:
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National Trust:
Thank you to the National Trust properties for taking part in the Heritage Open Days (and a special thank you to the lady who allowed us to film her presentation at George Stephenson Cottage):
George Stephenson's Cottage:
Cherryburn:
English Heritage:
Details for Prudhoe Castle part of English Heritage (not part of the heritage open day):
Churches:
St Mary - Ovingham:
St Peters - Bywell:
St Andrews - Bywell:
Wylam Railway Museum:
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Heatherslaw Light Railway - Heatherslaw (Ford) Mill to Etal Castle
The Heatherslaw Light Railway operate a 15 inch narrow gauge passenger railway between Heatherslaw Mill and Etal Castle in Northumberland UK; there is about 2 miles of track.
Wylam Station (Afternoon)
Recording Trains on a cold afternoon at Wylam Station located on the Tyne Valley line. Wylam station is run by Northern in rail and is a quiet station in North East England. I did a couple of hours there from 14:30pm to 16:30pm on the 18th January 2016. Enjoy the Video.
Class 142 Northernrail pacer at Wylam Station.3gp
Class 142 got to be the most uncomfortable ride ever, if you watch them when they pull away it bounces.
Peckett 0-4-0 Saddle Tank steam locomotive at Pallot Steam Museum on Jersey (UK Channel Island)
A tourist ride on the live-steam regular gauge (4ft-8.5) fun railway located in the grounds of the Pallot Steam Museum on the island of Jersey. The train is hauled by a working Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotive, plated 'Peckett & Sons Ltd, No.2129, Bristol 1952'. The museum also has cars and commercial vehicles, farm tractors, plus a collection of organs (including a Compton cinema organ), and lots of general farm and household artifacts, toys, early electricals, etc. So it is so much more than just a steam and tractor museum; well worth a visit, something for everyone. (No relation or other connection, by the way; just a visitor myself.)
G.B (Basilis Kapa)
Beamish - The Living Museum of the North England.
Puffin Billy.
Puffin Billy.
Puffing Billy was one of the three similar engines built by William Hedley, the resident engineer at Wylam Colliery, to replace the horses used as motive power on the tramway. In 1813 Hedley built for Blackett's colliery business on the Wylam Colliery line the prototypes, Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly. They were both rebuilt in 1815 with ten wheels, but were returned to their original condition in 1830 when the railway was relaid with stronger rails.
Extrat from Wikipedia.
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46233 Duchess of Sutherland at Wylam on The Hadrian railtour which originated at Leicester and travelled to Carlisle via the Settle and Carlisle returning to leicester via the Tyne Valley. LMS Princess Coronation class,
Live Steam Train at Stephenson Railway Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, 30-09-2018
No.5 Ashington, an 0-6-0ST steam loco built by Peckett & Sons, works the regular Sunday tourist train at Stephenson Railway Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It works a short distance at 4 times per day on Sundays.
Apologies for the disturbance noises (talks) near the end. 2 local guys approached me and had a quick chat since they were curious when they see me standing with a camera on the lineside.
Class 20's at Redbrook
20901 and 20904 have been added to the Redbrook fleet. This is their first run on the layout.
37605 and 37259 pass under Newburn Bridge
37605 and 37259 pass under Newburn Bridge at Hartlepool.
A busy 30 minutes at Corbridge Railway Station 14.11.15
Including Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) HSTs on diversions, Northern Rail's class 142s, 156 and Scotrail a class 156. 14th November 2015. Corbridge is situated on the Tyne Valley line between Newcastle and Carlisle. Taken between 13:30 and 14:00 on the 14th November 2015
The Old Wagon Way (25th May 2017)
25th May 2017
The Old Wagon Way
A glorious hot sunny day and I decided to re-shoot an earlier walk that had camera and copyright issues. In the previous walk, I started from Hagg Bank and walked the old railway line to the old station in Wylam, then crossed the river and walked to Claravale before heading up to Emma Pit. I then walked the old wagon way along the High Mickley branch before dropping into Stocksfield and coming back to Hagg Bank along the river.
This time I decided to start at the site of Emma Pit and to walk each of the branch lines as best as possible.
The Old Wagon Way is a 17th century wagon way that was used to take coal from numerous small pits to Stella (near Blaydon) where it was loaded onto boats and taken elsewhere in the country. The earliest record that I have found of the wagon way's existence is in 1663 and in the Tyne Valley, it is only predated by the Lease Way 1660. However, this wagon way is marked on the earliest maps as the 'old wagon way'. There are suggestions that the wagon way (or parts of it) may even be older than 1640.
While most of the wagon way had closed by 1787 and before the time of the first maps, the part connecting the 3 Crawcrook main pits (Catherine, Kepier, and Emma) may have remained in use for longer. However, the rail link from Emma pit to the Tyne took a different route to that of the old wagon way which more or less followed the route of the current main road through Ryton.
After I leave Stanley Burn woods the wagon way splits in two... one route continues westwards before swinging North East towards High Mickley where it can be assumed there were two pits. The other branch swings south to Dukes Hagg Farm where there were two pits and it splits again. One branch continued southwards to Leadgate where there were three pits. The other branch headed southwest over the current glider club's airfield connecting a string of pits before passing a further two pits on the other side of the lead road and concluding at Airy Hill Farm where there was once a large quarry.
I chose to follow the leadgate route first. After taking shelter in the shade for a bite to eat outside the former bairns pub, I headed along the lead road to pick up the old wagon way as it exits the airfield following the lead road around to Airy Hill farm where this second branch finishes. I then headed into Hedley-on-the-Hill before taking the road to High Mickley and pick up the end of the branch that split after leaving the woods. I follow this branch in reverse to the rest of the route back to where the initial split occurred. This branch line closed in 1740.
The heat took its toll on me and I ran out of water with still a couple of miles left to walk home.
The route (my route varies slightly with an extra couple of miles to get to the start and to get home):
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Colas 66 849 'Wylam Dilly' Light Engine , 01/09/14
Gloucester N.Y - Washwood Heath R.M.C Working.
Boiler Shop Steamer
This is an event held in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the workshops that built the most famous locomotive in the world Robert Stephenson's 'Rocket' which is in the science museum in London. The event has been held for some months now on the first weekend of the month. It is a joint venture organised by Wylam Brewery and Riley Fish Shack and includes Music Street Food and Alcoholic Beverages!
COLNE VALLEY line (Essex) by Railbus in 1961
Chapel & Wakes Colne to Haverhill on a dull, wet day in 1961.
1964 Steam Loco Cab Ride on the Wannie Line, Morpeth, Northumberland
The fireman on a J27 NER loco, Ken Hedley, filmed in Super8 cine parts of the loco's journey from Morpeth to West Woodburn, Northumberland 2 years before closure of the line. A North British signal, crossing gate being opened and shunting operation are featured. The sound effects are not original but Ken's 2006 recorded commentary guides us along the way.