North Yorkshire Coast

[wibblechops]

I've loved this route since it's first versions on UKTS - good to see it's still being worked on. Will it "go all the way" to Scarborough eventually?

Good to see you're doing nearer the start as well, Saltburn etc.

Cheers!!!!


NQ.

[MarkT79]

Thank you, It would be nice to get to Scarborough eventually, Certainly to Ravenscar, I've cycled it a few times now and can only imagine how good a railway it must have been to travel on, Unless I can recreate it in the sim which would be the next best thing. I'm not quite finished on Saltburn yet, 1950's Teesside would be a challenge but Middlesborough station and Newport yard would be the logical Northern destinations

[MarkT79]

A quick tour of the ironworks

Firstly the mineral sidings, BR loco's bring in trains of Ore, Coke & Lime
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Ironworks Loco's push loaded trains up the incline to the mineral gantry sidings
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Trains are either run down to the tipplers and the materials fed onto conveyors or propelled further onto the mineral gantry where raw materials are dropped into the holding bays below
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Materials are mixed and fed into either the two remaining old furnaces 1&3 where the molten iron is run into the pig beds
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Or No5 furnace where the Iron is tapped into hot metal ladles
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Skinningrove Ironworks & Zig Zag for TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Slag is collected at all blast furnaces in 4 wheeled ladles and taken to various tipping sites around the works or left on the cooling roads dependent on which industry requires it
20161210104454_1 by Mark T, on Flickr

Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Hot metal ladles from No5 furnace then make their way to the melting shop where they are craned into one of four furnaces, Here it is combined with scrap from the scrap shed, Pig Iron from the old furnaces and various minerals which have been brought up the melting shop North gantry
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

I have installed a small unloading point for A.I trains to drop off their hot metal if required to
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Once the correct grade of steel has been produced the furnaces are tipped into ladles which are then suspended above ingot moulds for teeming
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Ingots are then taken into the adjoining stripping shed for the moulds to be lifted off
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Once stripped ingots are propelled to the soaking pits, Here they are soaked with heat which keeps them at the correct temperature until they are required by the rolling mills, I'm adding various lit markers from the civil engineers pack to help line up wagons with the loading points
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

These are the rolling mills from where finished and semi finished products emerge
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

Also on the site are the fabrication shop and Colliery arch plant
Skinningrove Ironworks in TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

All finished products are moved to the exchange sidings for dispatch around the world
Skinningrove Ironworks TS2017 by Mark T, on Flickr

[Rockdoc2174]

That is superb work.

Keith

[VictoryWorks]

Stunning atmosphere!

[malkymackay]

That's looking rather brilliant.

[Pauls]

VERY impressive ! - well done.

Cheers
Paul

[wibblechops]

Good stuff!

NQ.

[Peter Goodearl]

Very good, well done!

Peter