The LNER Encyclopedia

I am trying to tie down some Loco sheds or stabling points in use by the NER
If anybody can supply detail of Correct name and Location with grid ref and open closing dates I would be most grateful.

Bishop Auckland
Blackhill (Consett)
Low Fell
Newsham
Stella Gill

I have not been able to find these in a number of Loco shed directory books.

Newsham is nr Blyth, I will forward your post to 52F for Further info. Im sure Stella Gill was on the Carlisle line there is a power station of the same name.

Stella Gill was to the west of Chester le Street. There was a coke works there and South Pelaw Colliery was nearby. There are photos in the Middleton Press book "Consett to South Shields via Beamish".
52D was nearly correct, but the location he is thinking about is just plain Stella!

probably too much Stella of the Artois variety.

I thought Stella wasn't quite right as I did some trackwork there in the 90s.

You can see the the back wall of what was Consett shed in my 1980 photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/3385639417/ by which time it only had a Stabling Point (the grey roofed building. Low Fell wasn't a loco shed but merely a P-Way yard with an Asbestos clad single road shed of BR design which housed a crane or Tamper machine. The skeleton of the shed was there till about the early 2000's I think.

I think that the details in the link below are for Consett Blackhill.

http://www.steamsheds.co.uk/pmwiki.php?n=Sheds.CONSETT

Have you tried Griffiths & Smith Directory of British Engine Sheds?

Stella Gill - details of 2 sites

Consett

Nothing on Bishop Auckland (only West Auckland), Low Fell or Newsham.

If you use it, beware - index is incomplete.

Kudu

Just had a reply from a former North Blyth driver regarding Newsham and he hadnt heard of it being a stabling point.

All the locations mentioned are the reported stabling points for the NER Snowploughs.
The detail came from K Hoole and J Mallon's publication on them.

Newsham was listed as being used in 1912, 1947 and 1960 with gaps in between.
Stella Gill in 1947
Bishop Auckland 1912 - 32
Blackhill 1947 - 60

Hi All
I was made a fireman at pelton level shed, which was a stabling point and a sub depot of Tyne dock. The shed was located at the top of the Waldridge incline up from Stella Gill. It was about a half mile from Grange Villa. Hope this is of some value.

52H

Could the Bishop Auckland reference be referring to the P-Way yard at the west end, more or less opposite West box iirc?

Possibly.
Especially as that is the location where my snowplough spent some time.
It was then and is now lettered up as being allocated to Bishop Auckland late NER early LNER
http://yorkareagroup.co.uk/wp-content/g ... g_4369.jpg

There is photos of it at BA, the location, I think I am right in saying, is now under the bypass or very close to being so.