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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1345 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Railway engineering schemes, Plawsworth and Pelton bridges, and station closures

Covering Dates: 1953-1992

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Catalogue Description

Records given,

24 December 2001 Acc: 2820(D)

8 March 2002 Acc: 2834(D)

Catalogue Contents

Photographs of the reconstruction of railway bridge no.212 at Plawsworth, November - December 1987 (Ref: D/X 1345/1-30)

Photograph taken from the railway line showing the bridge with scaffolding behind, photograph number L114 Ph1, negative number 8711.8404.1, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway line showing the bridge with scaffolding erected, photograph number L114 Ph2, negative number 8711.8404.2, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the field looking towards the embankment and railway line, photograph number L114 Ph3, negative number 8711.8404.3, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph of the area used as a site office and park for works vehicles, photograph number L114 Ph4, negative number 8711.8404.4, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the roadway looking towards the site entrance, photograph number L114 Ph5, negative number 8711.8404.5, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the roadway looking towards the site entrance, photograph number L114 Ph6, negative number 8711.8404.6, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the roadway looking towards the top of the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph7, negative number 8711.8404.7, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken on the top of the bridge showing the start of the demolition work, photograph number L114 Ph8, negative number 8711.8404.8, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the road looking towards the approach to the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph9, negative number 8711.8404.9, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking towards the top of the bridge, showing the removal of the road surface, photograph number L114 Ph10, negative number 8711.8404.10, 23 November 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night showing workmen dismantling one side of the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph11, negative number 8712.8436.3, 6 December 1987
(1 photograph 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night showing equipment being used to dismantle one side of the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph12, negative number 8712.8436.6, 6 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track showing workmen rebuilding part of the stone wall at the base of the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph13, negative number 8712.8436.7, 6 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking down on to the track, showing workmen rebuilding the stone wall at the base of the bridge, photograph number L114 Ph14, negative number 8712.8436.9, 6 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night showing workmen placing steel reinforced concrete girders on to the rebuilt stone wall, photograph number L114 Ph15, negative number 8712.8451.1, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night from the railway track looking towards the bridge, showing workmen putting steel reinforced concrete girders on to the rebuilt stone wall, photograph number L114 Ph16, negative number 8712.8451.2, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night from the railway track looking towards the bridge, showing the steel reinforced concrete girders in place, photograph number L114 Ph17, negative number 8712.8451.5, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night from the railway track looking towards the bridge, showing a crane lifting a girder into position, photograph number L114 Ph18, negative number 8712.8451.6, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken at night from the railway track looking towards the bridge, showing a crane lifting a girder into position, photograph number L114 Ph19, negative number 8712.8451.7, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking across the top of the bridge, showing a crane lowering a girder into position guided by workmen, photograph number L114 Ph20, negative number 8712.8451.8, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking towards the bridge, showing a crane lowering girders into position, photograph number L114 Ph21, negative number 8712.8451.12, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking across the top of the bridge, showing the concrete girders in position, photograph number L114 Ph22, negative number 8712.8451.13, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking across the top of the bridge, showing a concrete girder being lowered into place, photograph number L114 Ph23, negative number 8712.8451.14, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking across the top of the bridge, showing concrete girder number 12 being lowered into place, photograph number L114 Ph24, negative number 8712.8451.15, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the embankment looking across the top of the bridge, showing concrete girder number 12 being lowered into place by workmen, photograph number L114 Ph25, negative number 8712.8451.16, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking up underneath the girders, photograph number L114 Ph26, negative number 8712.8451.17, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking up underneath the girders, photograph number L114 Ph27, negative number 8712.8451.18, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking up underneath the girders, photograph number L114 Ph28, negative number 8712.8451.19, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking up underneath the girders, photograph number L114 Ph29, negative number 8712.8451.20, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph taken from the railway track looking up underneath the girders, photograph number L114 Ph30, negative number 8712.8451.21, 13 December 1987
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)

Photographs of work on Plawsworth viaduct, 8 March 1983 and 25 June 1992 (Ref: D/X 1345/31-33)

Photograph of Plawsworth railway viaduct at Chester-le-Street, photograph number L150 Ph1, negative number 833.5251.15, 8 March 1983
(1 photograph, 20 cm. x 20 cm., colour)


Photograph of Plawsworth railway viaduct, showing repairs to the bridge, with the locomotive Roseberry Topping on the track, photograph number L150, Ph2, 25 June 1992
(1 photograph, 17.5 cm. x 12.5 cm., colour)


Photograph of Plawsworth railway viaduct, showing the track and repairs to the bridge, photograph number L150, Ph3, 25 June 1992
(1 photograph, 17.5 cm. x 12.5 cm., colour)

North Eastern Region Chief Civil Engineer's correspondence files (Ref: D/X 1345/34-36)

Second Deposit

(Acc: 2834(D))


Correspondence concerning the proposed closure of West Stanley railway station, 13 May 1953 - 9 September 1963
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning the proposed closure of Evenwood (passenger) railway station, 20 February 1957 - 14 February 1964
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning the proposed demolition of Bridge No. 7 (Pelton), part of the Birtley, Annfield Plain & Consett branch of the Beamish Wagonway, 24 January 1958 - 29 March 1968
(1 file)