Freight movements around Consett
Class
37 hauls scrap up from Consett low yard past Carr House West disused
box in March 1983. Approaching Consett station from the south west.
Site of steel works and ore depot was in right background with old sidings
to coke works in right foreground. Carr House Junction was the junction
for the Medomsley Branch leading to Medomsley Colliery and Derwent Colliery
Photo by Frank Routledge 
 Class
37 with scrap empties during steelworks demolition in March 1983. Site
of original NER Consett station on the line from Durham was situated
in vicinity of water tank in background. The original Consett station
was under the later motive power depot which was on the through line
from Durham to Swalwell (Derwent Valley via Ebchester and Lintz)
Photo by Frank Routledge 
Consett
Low Yard looking north in March 1983. Class 37 with a train of scrap
in the headshunt and about to depart. Consett steel works under demolition
Photo
by Frank Routledge
Class
40 075 in Consett station yard delivering domestic coal in September
1981. Public delivery stopped in 1960's but the coal merchant sidings
remained in use almost until line closure and demolition. Goods
yard was at Consett station between Carr House West and Carr House
Junction
Photo by Frank Routledge Click here for more pictures
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