Fence Houses

Just some of the photographs taken by John Black at last years Model Railway Exhibition 2010 at North Shields

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I recently purchased this photo. I will enlarge the section of the boy bottom right, lets see if we can solve the mystery of who he is?

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Dennis, I got this from E-bay, my dad seems to think this is around 1960 of Fence Houses station.  I donated a copy of this to the Fence Houses book last year. Regards Andrew

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The back is equally interesting with a Fence Houses 1922 postmark and the message suggests it was written by a then resident of Station Avenue. Regards Geoff Robinson  

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Another excellent photo that has been found and this is probably better than most for its detail. Thanks to Geoff Robinson  The repairs to the wall of both the signal box and the station shed can clearly be seen where the accident damaged them when the trucks came adrift (I think you have the very [...]

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Picture of a Deltic taken in the old Station circa 1960s (Mid) when passengers were being bused from Durham to board trains to London (etc) due to repair work on the main line which closed it completely.  They used to arrive in United buses.    This one is interesting although I apologise for the poor [...]

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Opened: 1914 Location code: NE16/30 Fencehouses box was erected quite late in North Eastern days, but differed little in design principle to the 1890′s box illustrated at Milton. Where it does differ, though, is in the implementation, for a wide all-timber top has been mounted on a narrow brick base. This was necessary as, at [...]

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