Three Bridges used to be my local station The East Grinstead line used to run out of a stub platform 6 at the south end of platform 5 IIRC Coming home from trips to London we would occasionally see the East Grinstead train waiting to depart I remember travelling on it once when I was very young to see a cricket match in Tunbridge Wells - Kent v Sussex I guess I have a really bad feeling that I was the small child wandering in front of the sight screen with an ice cream But I was very young and it was a long time ago!

This is genuinely stunning, probably the best 'then-and-now' type history footage of Consett I've seen, quite moving in places too. Thank you for posting this up - I know I'll be watching it again many times.

i used to travel from teesside to the steel works to paint the blast furnace when i was young early 20s now 71 years old dont time fly remember it as if it was yesterday we in teesside had a great number more than consett now we have none what a pity they are all gone now we have to import shite steel from china we have our past governments to blame selling them of and shutting them down shame on them all them skills gone same as ship yards coal mines and more heavy industries

Superb!

DC LOCO LIGHTING A BEGINNERS GUIDE.

Downloaded the code and uploaded into a Nano,all good so far, and ordered the parts off of temu, signals are the train tech 4 aspect kits , i'll let you know how I go.... exciting!

Brilliant depiction in film of then and now ,Consett

Only just found this video. Brought back so many memories. I renumber being on the beach with my Mother, on the opposite side of the beach road, when a steam train passed us heading to Weymouth. I was only 3...or 4? So too young to realize that it was probably one of the last runs.

Really useful. Thank you

Couldn’t watch because of the music! Why spoil your work?

Excellent vlog cant beat the classics before and after. Great 5*****

Born in leadgate and grew up in delves ,50 years ago my family moved,happy memories from consett.when I’m in the north east I still visit my home town.Big changes,but love the place.

Houses and roads replacing industry and jobs

wow basics without gobbledook. I followed your advice and my 3 car passenger consist with a single spud motor is well lighted. Oh I made sure the 2 none powered cars are also picking up power. 16 pickups ensures the Spuds don't stuptdler.

I really enjoyed watching the transformation and overlay. Fantastic!

Couple of things. We don’t have “”amber”” signals in the UK; they’re “”yellow””. Also, yer red steps up to yellow before the Train has cleared the overlap of the next signal. If real signals functioned like yours, there’d be a lot of collisions.

Nice work. Looks great. Happy Modelling

I'm sure if you have the original film reel it can be scanned at 1080p or 4K given that it was shot on film, or it could be upscaled, but the original would need to be at a reasonable resolution. The quality must've been pretty bad to start with if youtube only uploaded it at 240p, that's lower than VHS.

Can't find the actual edited film, I'm guessing youtube won't allow it due to the copyrighted music and it's probably owned by British Pathe or the BFI like most films of this period seem to be owned by now. I remember Let's Go to Birmingham being shown during Channel 4's Going Loco season in Sept 1990, it was then repeated on the 1st Jan 1991 along with a few more steam loco related programmes such as The Emotive Locomotive and Mallard the Drake's Progress.

Good work Paul sad that the steel works closed but people's health will be better it's a pity they didn't save the railway line

When i left school in 1973, I went to Consett Technical Collage for a year. I remember the pink clouds passing by the windows. Also the co-op had the window sills painted white on the Friday, then on Monday they were pink. Everything was coated in pinkish rusty colour, snow, rain water. I lived in Whickham at the time and when you looked over to Consett, a pink cloud hung over it. Then in the mid 1990's I worked in a bank in Consett and it had change so much.

How would you go about doing this on a round edge for, say, a plate/dish?

Thank you for taking the photos so long ago and making this. I regularly ride the old line to Consett and beyond and wonder how it all was and fitted into what there is today. It’s amazing how vast it was and how it’s all gone.

А я такой самый нашёл и отремонтирявал через пол года продал. Ещё и заработал на нём. А ты только ломаешь мозгов не хвтило вот и не можеш отремонтирываь. Ты просто не хотел вникнуть а проще показать как разбить ума много не надо. И ни чего хорошего в этом нету. Ломать не строить.

Really useful. Thank you.

What an excellent presentation. I’ve tried in the past to find where old images of Consett were taken, so I know how much has changed and what a difficult task matching these images must have been. Normally, I dislike “slideshows set to music” on KZbin, as they don’t add any value over looking at the images on a photo sharing website, but this video really does show what can be achieved. Bravo!

Amazing and heartbreaking.

Brilliantly done!

Great to see before and sadly now

Great video. Quite nostalgic looking back to the days when we made steel here instead of importing it. I have a couple of photos looking across to Consett Steelworks taken in the late 1960's which remind me of the days when you could not miss seeing it from miles away on the main road going north. There was always a brown cloud on the horizon telling you where Consett was! The air may be a bit cleaner now but I wonder if the benefits outweigh the loss of jobs and our seeming inability to produce anything anymore..... Sad to see what we lost, but hopefully we will eventually live better lives without the pollution. Thanks for the memories!

Amazing photos. It's as if they have made a determined effort to erase the railway and steelworks from the landscape.

Great now and then photos! Back in the day I remember that most older people called it Consett Ironworks, probably because originally it was owned by the Consett Iron Company. At 4:10 the sign just says Consett Works! (not anymore it doesn't, sadly.)

Wonderfully nostalgic. Thank you

Thank you - great video of before and after. 👍

Superb

I worked at Consett Station when TOPS was introduced [1976?] Even went to Blackhill with the pilot to shunt the coal yard. -through the tunnel! Great photos past and present.

Thank you what a lovely old Railway, so sad it was closed as a Species we certainly know how to bugger things up.

Its a useful video but would be better if you had fixed the camera in position ie no shaking. An easy way to remember motor wiring is Red & Black - to the Track. Orange and Grey go the other way (Motor)

Great videos just one question. With the reed switvh you say you do not need a 5v supply so are you switching the 0v

Remarkable work. Very sad too....

wow. Having moved to Consett 14 years ago I realised the history the way people talk. But seeing this in pictures is amazing. Thank you

Many thanks for your very thorough and informative explanation which provides such a nice and clear overview of the lighting principles. Very helpful! Just wondering if you'd ever tried to add any sound decoders along with lights?

Every train set needs a kitten kong🙄👍👍

Hello Paul, Where did you find "Flickering" LED's? I have been searching through the internet and cannot find any that do not come without a circuit. I would like to find Nano/Pico or 1.6mm.

Those original photos are just brilliant, and to show them against how the town looks now - with the evidence of the steelworks and railway network removed from the landscape - is a beautiful tribute to the original photography. Very apt music indeed. Top work.

Superb, thank you.

A fine piece of film, put together with professionalism and sensitivity. Thank you.

The old Polegate station is no more it's been demolished and is now housing.

Brilliant choice of music. I can remember those stations. Had Beeching not cut all that back we could now have a really useful transport system connecting Weymouth to Portland with useful stops along the way, and take so many cars off our roads. Oh, well….

Fantastic. Well done