Newcastle & Carlisle Railway - Driver's Eye View on 6-4- '83 Part 7.

[@tileajb1]

You are to congratulated on having the foresight to record this when you did, thanks for posting.

[@DistrictDriver]

Just to say thank you so much for uploading this video! As someone who has lived almost my entire life in Dunston and travelled the line quite a bit in the 80s, this has brought back some amazing memories! Brilliant seeing the old Stella power station and no trace of the Metro Centre! Thanks again!

[@apachenoise54]

Your films are pure nostalgia and hugely enjoyable. Well done for shooting them and thank you for sharing.

[@Arpington]

The disused station towards the end is Dunston, now reopened again but only visited by about two trains (and zero passengers) a day! Stella South power station at the start is now a housing estate, both Addison and the following box are closed, the sidings are cleared and the land unoccupied. The water tank at Blaydon has gone and the footbridge replaced (about three trains a day stop there now) whilst all of the industry between Derwenthaugh and Dunston (and associated sidings) has vanished.

[@rachelshappyendings]

Thank you for adding that. I loved seeing the arrival into Newcastle Station. I remember being taken there as a child by my Dad as he was collecting a parcel from the Red Star offices. I just remembered seeing the parcel trains sitting around looking forgotten about. Thank you!

[@FrizzellAlan]

Glad you liked it, although the technology of the time meant it could only be seen, "as through a glass, darkly", to quote St Paul. My earliest memory of Central Station dates back to 1944, when my mother took me to look at an engine driving wheel, and pointed out it was bigger than her! She was about 5ft 2ins. Regards, Alan.

[@dulciefrizzell7735]

Thanks for your kind remarks. I am a Gateshead lad myself, though spent 30 years in Carlisle, from where this video was made. Regards, Alan.

[@john-of-the-north]

My, I'd forgotten just how wobbly the pointwork at the Raine Factory (near Derwenthaugh) was. I remember how the trains slowed right down just there, and ditto just east of Dunstan Station. It's hard to imagine such confiurations of track on a modern Tyne Valley Line today.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

Only one complaint, Would have liked more if it was just a couple of years earlier when the line at Blaydon went off towards Scotswood. Thanks for uploading.

[@craig6467]

Amazing how different this now looks to the route I drive today.

[@FrizzellAlan]

Thank you for your kind comments. It all seems a long time ago, now. Regards, AF.

[@dulciefrizzell7735]

And thank you for your kind comment. I was lucky in a way, in that my first ever video cassette recorder had, by chance, a 12 volt alternative input, so could be put to this sort of use with a bit of ingenuity. Regards, Alan.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

The Class 37 hauled freight is the empty Wakefield to Derwenthaugh Cobra coke containers. Within a year of this video the wagons (TOPS Code FEV - Conflat E) and the containers would be working out of Boulby mine hauling rock salt.

[@imperatorrm]

Ah, Blaydon in 1983, I was 14 then. Remember it well.

[@FrizzellAlan]

@Grungefanyohan - no, this is just a foreshortening effect due to the telephoto lens on the JVC camera. Regards, AF

[@michaelmcwilliams4486]

Great stuff, I know the journey very well and live in Blaydon(half a dozen trains each way now). Are you Alan Frizzell brother of dentist Joe. St Cuthberts in the 1950's? Michael McWilliams

[@FrizzellAlan]

Yes Michael, that's us. Joe is now retired, living in Hong Kong. Regards, Alan.

[@rupertthebear2771]

Only thing spoiling this is that annoying kid on the whistle--I bet his parents soon got sick of him playing it at home !