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John Lawson
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11 years ago

Thanks Peter, for reminding me of this set up!
As I understand it the old bus was used as a mine shop!
An incline was driven down the East side of the burn to try and intersect Slitt Vein which is crossed by the burn in this area.
It was operated by the Weardale, notable, Malcolm Allison, and I guess the photo must.have been taken in the early 70's.

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christwigg
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11 years ago

Heres the photo in question for when the thread is older and its disappeared off the Homepage.

[photo]Park-Burn-Shaft-Fluorite-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-96286[/photo]

Looks like a cracking little setup.

Pinzgauer
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11 years ago

Never mind the shaft, what about the bus? What a cracker! A Leyland Tiger/PS1 ?? I don't suppose for one minute there is a trace of the bus (or shaft) left is there ?:(

Who threw the overalls in Mrs Murphy''s Chowder ??

Ty Gwyn
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11 years ago

Not knowing anything about Buses,but Leyland started making tractors 1969/70 ,similar with car`s.

Did Leyland make Buses before that period,as it looks pre mid 60`s?

ebgb
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11 years ago

"Pinzgauer" wrote:
Never mind the shaft, what about the bus? What a cracker! A Leyland Tiger/PS1 ?? I don't suppose for one minute there is a trace of the bus (or shaft) left is there ?:(

The bus may still be in Weardale motors old yard in frosterley. Was still there a few years ago. On the left as you head towards wolsingham

http://bf494.co.uk

rikj
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11 years ago

A nice little cameo appearance from its days in service:

[photo]Personal-Album-2571-Image-96294[/photo]

From an auction on ebay.

PeteJ
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11 years ago

The shaft top is still visible and open with a low fence. the rest of the site is cleared. Good to look at for the geology - the vein outcrop is massive . The opencast floor on the east side of the stream occasionally drops and evil holes appear.

Park Burn was piped and culverted, presumably to avoid the water sinking into the stope. Some remains of that work.

No single decker at Frosterley or Stanhope WMS, but they do have a nicely restored Leyland double decker which can be hired.

Yorkshireman[i]has edited the photo to recover the green shades - much improved, thank you!

Pete Jackson
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remoteneeded
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11 years ago

"PeteJ" wrote:

Yorkshireman[i]has edited the photo to recover the green shades - much improved, thank you!

Wow, what a fantastic recovery job. Can I ask how you did it?

Yorkshireman
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11 years ago

I just posted a whole page of how I did it, but it just disappeared when I submitted it.

Basically it was Kodak ROC - a plug-in in Photoshop CS2 and then tweaking contrast, saturation and various colour channels in Adobe Lightroom 3.6. A final touch was sharpening it a little with Focus Magic - another Photoshop plug-in.
Cheers

PeteJ
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11 years ago

#10

Just extracted this comment from Westgate Heritage Facebook page:

Ian Forbes
28 August

Cracking picture Pete. Malcolm Brown talked about the bus when interviewed by Neil Diment for The Friends "Fluorspar" project. They (he and Malcolm Maddison) disconnected the prop shaft from the rear axle, connected it to their compressor and wedged the accelerator pedal down with a brick..

Copyright - Ian Forbes

Pete Jackson
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11 years ago

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"Yorkshireman" wrote:
I just posted a whole page of how I did it, but it just disappeared when I submitted it.

Basically it was Kodak ROC - a plug-in in Photoshop CS2 and then tweaking contrast, saturation and various colour channels in Adobe Lightroom 3.6. A final touch was sharpening it a little with Focus Magic - another Photoshop plug-in.
Cheers

Thanks for the info. I understand the theory but when I tried to fix the same image in PhotoShop CC I didn't get close to your result so I think I'll have to invest in the plug-in. Good old Kodak, they sure know their stuff when it comes to photography.

remoteneeded
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11 years ago

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Ah, just seem that Kodak ROC was discontinued a while ago and won't work with my 64bit Photoshop CC. Shame.