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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.
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.
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.
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.
circa September 1988
Class 101 DMUs in Stanhope station on the Weardale line, the slide process date is September 1988. Some Saltburn to Bishop Auckland trains were extended here in summer Sundays from 1988-92. Stuart Mackay Collection.
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