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June 1979
Vehicle: 99900
99900 at Oxenhope on the Keighley & Worth Valley line in June 1979. It was converted to blue star for remote control of the loco at the other end. Ken Barnes.
Summer 1988
Set: 101332
Set 101 332 is seen at Stanhope on the Weardale line. It was on a summer Sunday excursion in Summer 1988. Roy Lambeth.
Summer 1988
Set: 101332
Set 101 332 is seen at Stanhope on the Weardale line. It was on a summer Sunday excursion in the summer of 1988. Roy Lambeth.
19th October 1985
Set: 79
A six-car Class 101 formation is seen with the 'Wear and Wendley Dalesman' railtour at Stanhope on 19/10/1985. It originated at Darlington. This is now part of the Weardale Railway. Graeme Phillips Collection.
23rd August 1986
Vehicle: 52085
Having left Edale heading towards Manchester and about to plunge into the 2 mile 182 yard Cowburn Tunnel in the Hope Valley on 23rd August 1986, a 1961 built BRC&W built "MetroTrain" branded class 110 'Calder Valley' 3 car dmu set, this one being E52085 + E59696 + E52069, these were not common through here, indeed I'm sure this is the only shot I have of one! The last of the class were taken out of service in October 1989 but by then they were no longer common in the Calder Valley. Andrew J Crowther.
April 1982
Vehicle: 56116
Three weeks road learning at Toton, most of it on single unit DB975042 until it disappeared mysteriously on the last week. Here Guide Bridge Driver Norman 'Nobby' Robinson is seen here at the helm of the replacement 2 car unit, 56116 and 51124. Taken somewhere in the Hope Valley. Note the traditional brew can lid on the window sill! Arnie Furniss.
14th June 1983
Two Met-Camm sets head east away from Hope station on June 14th, 1983. Steve Davies Collection.
29th May 1988
Vehicle: 51458 Set: 101332
101 332 (51458 + 53240) at Stanhope on May 29, 1988, the first summer of the Sunday extension of the Bishop Auckland service to Stanhope. Also the only summer when first generation DMUs were used. John Carter.
19th October 1985
A six-car Class 101 formation is seen at Stanhope on 19/10/1985 with the 'Wear and Wendley Dalesman' railtour, which originated at Darlington. This is now part of the Weardale Railway. Graeme Phillips Collection.
29th May 1988
Vehicle: 53240
E53240 + E51458 at Stanhope on May 29, 1988, the first summer that these Sunday trains up to Stanhope. A connecting Weardale bus allowed further travel up the dale as far as Alston. It was only in the first year that first generation DMUs were used. Stanhope station is happily restored as a heritage station on the Weardale Railway. John Carter.
14th June 1983
A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight in the Hope Valley between Edale and Hope, 14 June, 1983. Steve Davies Collection.
29th May 1988
Vehicle: 51458 Set: 101332
E51458 + E53240 at Stanhope on May 29, 1988. On summer Sundays from 1988-92 a number of Saltburn to Bishop Auckland trains were extended to Stanhope over the normally freight only route to Eastgate in Weardale. At Stanhope a Weardale Motor Services bus met the train and went to Alston where there was time for a ride on the narrow gauge South Tynedale Railway. The trains stopped when the line lost it's last freight trains, the cement traffic from Eastgate. The station has been completely rebuilt as part of the Weardale Railway. John Carter.
October 1983
An oval-buffered Class 114 DMU, Hope station in the background, October 1983. Mel Smith.
3rd April 1971
Vehicle: 50284
50284 + 59532 + 50277 at Ryhope Grange Junction with the BLS Durham Area railtour on 3rd April 1971. Stuart Mackay Collection.
19th October 1985
Set: 79
A trio of Heaton allocated class 101 2-car DMU's are seen at the closed station of Stanhope on the Weardale line on October 19, 1985. By this date the line beyond Bishop Aukland was retained as a freight only line serving Etherley ballast tip and Eastgate Cement Works the station at Stanhope having closed on 29/05/1953. This railtour operated by Hertfordshire Railtours had started from London Kings Cross behind 31 447 and 31 448 loco hauled to Darlington. To cover the two lengthy freight branches in Weardale and Wensleydale passengers transferred to this six car DMU formation for the middle six hours of the day 11.30 to 17.43. The same class 31's then returned the tour passenger to London leaving Darlington at 18.05. Adrian Nicholls.
19th October 1985
A trio of Heaton based class 101 2-car DMU's are seen at Stanhope Excursion station on the then freight only Weardale line from Bishop Auckland to Eastgate Cement Works with the 'Wear & Wensley Dalesman' on 19/10/85. This Hertfordshire railtour had started from London Kings Cross with 31 447 and 31 448 to Darlington where tour passengers swapped to the DMU formation for traversal of the two lengthy freight lines to Eastgate in Weardale and Redmire in Wensleydale. Adrian Nicholls.
May 1997
Vehicle: 51506 Set: 101681
101681 (51506 + 51228) on a Sheffield - Manchester stopper at Hope, May 1997. Robert28194.
May 1997
Vehicle: 53311 Set: L840
L840 (53311 + 53322) at Hope with a Manchester-Sheffield service in May 1997. Robert28194.
September 1977
A Class 120 Swindon Cross-Country DMU in the Hope Valley during September 1977. George Woods.
15th June 1968
A Class 108 at Hope Exchange High Level on the 15th of June 1968. The KDH Archive.
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