Beamish Colliery Yard

[@josephmagedanz4070]

Perfect setting for the music, John, and a perfect time of day to visit the yards. Thanks for sharing.

[@Georges-MILLION]

Beau reportage John !!! Désolent de voir mourir ce patrimoine !!!!! Georges Beautiful story John !!! Desolate dying to see this heritage !!!!! Georges

[@swarfrat311]

Really nice video, John! It was most enjoyable! Thank you! Have a good one! Dave

[@chriscraven9572]

Thanks for that John. It brought back pleasant memories of a couple of sunny days I spent there in September

[@dennistemple4383]

A very well produced video John, always an interesting place Beamish, my last visit was 3 weeks ago and it is still evolving.

[@stevemackelprang8472]

Thank you for the look around... greatly appreciated.

[@jimsvideos7201]

Getting there in the Sentinel was a nice touch too.

[@greasydot]

Wow a lot of history in that place. Thanks for sharing.

[@doubleboost]

well worth a visit

[@farmerbob139]

things like that sure elicit a wide emotional response. nostalgia, sadness, loneliness, appreciation, reflection on the finite nature of our existence... and I bet I could build some stuff out of that scrap... oops, blasphemy.

[@richiewong1]

Bloody awesome place.

[@chriscrockerwhite]

Some of the shots around 1:15 look just like a really good model railway layout.

[@vajake1]

I bet that the Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tipton, Georgia USA would love to have some of that old iron!

[@placeholdername4068]

Old iron? Why, how very dare you XD

[@robgerrits4097]

some derusting to do there, thanks for sharing.

[@riiwind]

Iv been here loads of times :D

[@doubleboost]

Great place I could spend all week there

[@riiwind]

Do you work on the machinery there John?

[@doubleboost]

Sadly not Richard keeps the steam wagon there

[@riiwind]

the place could do with a tidy up, it's a bit messy like.

[@jonrpearce]

Looks like your lens filter needs a clean, or is it full of embedded swarf? Love the videos btw

[@doubleboost]

yes I think it needs a good clean

[@KnolltopFarms]

Very interesting John, thank you very much for bringing us along. I have a question for you, or anyone who knows the answer really...What was the red iron structure next to the Sentinel used for back in the day? I can see that it has a cable-drum and a few pulleys, so it looks like some form of crane or hoist, do you know the specific use for it? Thanks again...Aloha, Chuck

[@doubleboost]

It is a type of hand operated crane I believe the term is a "yard arm" It would have been used for general unloading I would think

[@bcbloc02]

Do they plan to fix that stuff like the old steamer or just let the weather take it?

[@jusb1066]

it will have already sat around since 1963 when british rail decommissioned them,im sure they will get around to it!

[@doubleboost]

The loco will be restored one day

[@gregbrodie-tyrrell3473]

Good to hear that poor old "Malleable No. 5" will be resuscitated/resurrected one day. This is the sort of thing that perhaps crowd funding can help with, by providing finance for materials, whilst noble chaps such as yourself and Richard and others do the actual work. Just think: you could be the Keith Rucker of Beamish!

[@gregbrodie-tyrrell3473]

Hmm: it seems that there are already quite a few Keith-clones in Beamish, as well as a sizeable wad of lottery money. Never mind; at least "Malleable No. 5" now has a very good chance of reincarnation.

[@knares1]

awesome

[@mrbluenun]

Hello John, Terrific video. looking at that yard as you show it, seems just like a Lego it spread ready to assemble! Can you the please tell me if ten tons is the weight of the steam lorry or/load capacity? Take care mrbluenun

[@doubleboost]

The wagon was 10 tons empty (in reality with a body & full water tank) it stands at 12 tons .It is rated to carry 18 tons

[@mrbluenun]

Hi John, Many thanks for the details, Never thought that relatively small machine would be so heavy.

[@schwellenzaehler2534]

Thank you for this video John. I hope they wait not so long with the restauration of that very interesting saddletankloco. One question, was that a coal mine ?

[@ChrisB257]

Always sad to see old locos languishing. Some history there.

[@ptonpc]

It's heart breaking to see the derelict bits around the site. Are they spares or will they be used for other restorations?

[@otiselevator7738]

Good music.

[@jossfitzsimons]

Beamish stout is brewed in Cork, Ireland. Better than Guinness. It should be the " official" beverage.

[@Barrybados]

When i was a lad down pit smoking coke pushing pit pony they were the days ,One of the strange quotes from granddad .

[@jusb1066]

its even better without people there

[@doubleboost]

Yes I was there very early ,It could well have been 50 years ago