Bowes Railway Colliery event 23rd/24th July

Bowes Railway have accounted there big event for the year, The Colliery weekend.
Celebrating proud mining heritage of the North East.

23rd July is a photographic charter, coal trains period dress the works, W.S.T, No.22 will be out with visiting loco to be accounted, only clue I can give is it’s a 0-4-0.
The diesels will also be out for those with different tastes lol.
Prices are £10 per person, (bargin personal for all day charter) if your interested drop me a message Via PM or Email me.

24th July is coal and passenger trains, with other attractions to be accounted.
Please follow the thread and updates will be posted ASAP. Normal prices for the running day, but TBA, all locos will be running as well

just to give folks idea of the atmosphere you can get even on a overcast day have a look at these photos, we'll set up shots etc during the charter , maybe get a stick of chalk out and try recreate colliery closure or something along those lines.

No.22 crew stops to talk to shunter while waiting for "planet" to clear section
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h2de0ad3d#h2de0ad3d

W.S.T and No.22 storm the Blackhams incline with rake of waggons.
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h5175c61#h5175c61

Remember the Classic Trains, Coals to Newcastle TV program on Ch4 the shots at the end with the loco crews posed with the engine? (look at link)
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h32af3d12#h32af3d12

cheers.

any questions just ask :wave:

 

You'll do anything to plug your site won't you?! :lol: Sounds good, count me in for the Saturday!

 

im just showing what people are missing out on lol

 

Coffee pot from the Beamish Open Air Museum is the visitor for the event.

also update on the photograthic chater, we'll be getting shots up and around Blackhams incline, 1st time train has went up that way in a while. rather looking forward to this personal lol.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5751948599/in/set-72157626790148210
only shot on the net ive found loco up that way.

please get back to me if your intersted in the chater, Via PM cheers.

 

little more detail on the charter
Bowes Railway will be recreating those coal board days from back in the 1960's 70's for one weekend, there will be posed shots with crew in period dress, and plenty of run pasts, the day will start at 10am in the yard (Springwell yard), we will have the three steam engines doing posed shots and doing runs up and down different areas of the yard.
Around 11ish we'll be making our way to the Level crossing for shots of the locos at the level crossing.

http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h33e0c149#h33e0c149
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h3edd7c30#h3edd7c30
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Then we will walk up the bank to "Blackhams Hauler House" (one of the winding engines that worked the line) to pose shots in around the area,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5751948599/in/set-72157626790148210

around dinner time we'll go to the Pelaw Main Curve, brilliant location, nice clear raised up photographic location,

couple shots at Pelaw Main Cruve
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h1515cdb7#h1515cdb7
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h2a3919d0#h2a3919d0
http://owenedwards.zenfolio.com/p883852343/h2e4eef21#h2e4eef21

locos will be running past, we will make our way back down the yard for more posed and set up shots in the yard, (with the sun being in different places frees up more locations for shoots).
We'll be using the main coal waggon set, mostly wooden hoppers with the odd steel one threw in
there will also be a PW set
Brilliant Railway Line which hasn’t changed since the line closed in 1970's and brilliant for photography

the Sunday will have coal and passenger trains running and more to TBA on attractions

 

A few shots from last Sunday
more at
http://winskill.zenfolio.com/
http://kennethsnowdon.zenfolio.com/

 

Due to lack of bookings for the photograthic charters, they can pay on the day, been talking to john young, but please send me a email if your interseted in a place on the charter this Saturday.

cheers.

 

I visited the railway for the first time on saturday and in spite of the cool wind and cloudy conditions I enjoyed the event which looked to be well attended.Well done to the organisers and volunteers.A selection of my photos taken at the colliery event are available for viewing at www.steamgalore.zenfolio.com

 

Thanks very much. sorry about the confustion in the moring, the gaff asked for plan, told him and he egored it lol.
on the possitive side everyone seemed happy, i will be making improvments/ changes for next time.
for £10 a bargin and the weather come out later on.

thanks very much for those that attented the record braking weekend for numbers.
on sunday we had just under 700 in a day the best ever, also ran the most passenger trains in a day, 12 normaly its one a hour, we were going none stop.

again cheers for those that attended.

cracking photos steam galore.

 

Good events at an underrated railway! Photos/videos to follow once I've got round to sorting my Foxfield ones!

 

A few photos now at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdenscombe/ , video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vmjmrM_c8.

 

Thanks for the comments on my pictures,I visited Tanfield too on sunday and the sun was out.First time visit up there too.Really superb.Few pictures on my site www.steamgalore.zenfolio.com I shall have to come back up to the North east again I think but if I do I shall have I shall have to start and learn the lingo!