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

A lovely piece of work! Exemplifying the fact that 'Good goes to bad' (that's the Second Law of Thermodynamics). So, work for good. The Common Good! Le bien Commune!

Thanks for re-kindling my memory. My grandparents lived at 1 Taylor's Terrace, The Grove and we have their original tenancy agreement from when the house was new. That house still exists, in much extended and modernised form. My grandfather was a coil winder in the electrical dept and one of his sons joined the same department straight from school. I was at boarding school in Hexham in the 60s and regularly caught the bus at weekends, alighting at the bus station then having to walk right through the works, under the bridge and to their house. The only source of heat was a single fire with back boiler for water, coal was free since one of my uncles worked for the Coal Board. In the winter of 62/63, ice formed on the inside of the metal casement windows. These windows were very noisy, rattling as the fully laden trucks crawled up from Castleside with a very distinctive engine note. They were powered by a Commer "Knocker" engine, a peculiar design of 2 stroke diesel, details can be found on KZbin. At some point in the 70s, the old slag heaps opposite the house were being removed and shipped to the Netherlands for land reclamation. I recall Saturday evenings when the paper boy would come round with "The Pink" containing all the football results and the local "Pop Man" delivering crates of Fentiman's, which is still available today. The uncle who worked for the Coal Board was a very successful rally navigator, competing on the Monte Carlo Rally twice, many RAC Rallies and I'm fortunate to have all his trophies and old rally plates. His driver was Geoff Cook, who was one son of Siddle C Cook, a major haulage company of the time, they branched into caravans under the name Elddis and Eldiss Transport still exists today. Whether any of the Cook family are still associated with that company, I can't say but I'm sure a search would reveal that info. If anyone remembers the family name of my mother which is Bowes, I'd be delighted to hear from you, please post a comment. The only relatives we've found are the children of one of my mother's cousins, their family name is Laykin (my maternal grandmother's maiden name) one of whom lives in Stanley, the other living in Turkey and we're in regu;lar contact with them both. Apologies for rambling on, but as I write one fact, others pop into my head........... Thanks again.

I managed to follow you guide and adapted it slightly to use a Nano. It works perfectly after I ironed out a faulty sensor. Thanks for posting the series of videos. I just need to incorporate it into my layout now :-)

Wow, sad, beautifully executed dissolves, I take my hat off to you.

I remember trains with 4 wheel wagons, each with two large blocks of Portland Stone. I also remember Portland Navy Days, with 4-wheel tank engines giving rides in a wagon inside the dockyard.

I love the effect of the 3 coloured LEDs. I may try this on my Hogwarts Express. The only bit that makes me nervous is soldering to the decoder socket. But I have an HM7000 8 pin decoder fitted, so could use the purple 9th cable and then just need to solder to blue common. I also think the decoder may have a built in flicker function, so perhaps normal LEDs could be used. Brilliant guide. Thanks. Gary B

You are really great !! Hatts off