Limestone quarry and conveyor bridge, Weardale 2008.

Here are some photos of a visit I paid to Weardale with BigLoada. Weardale cement works closed a while back and was promptly flattened. Little remains except a bridge which carried the conveyor from the quarry over the river Wear. The quarry, however, seems to be still live. On with the pics.



BigLoada on the bridge.




A fat cow!


Old conveyor route.


BigLoada playing with a shake hole in the quarry!


BigLoada has some cracking shots from the day. Hopefully he will add more to this thread.

Hey, nice i dont like saying this, cos it sounds patronisign, but nice shots, and, would you/anyone else be interested in some of the oh so many quarries around me, down at Portland, still live/dead? Tom.

Alas underitall I can't make it out of sunny Northumberland due to family/work commitments. I am aware that other counties have masses of quarries and mines just aching to be done but they are just too far. Weardale is a particular "hotspot" up here though - abandoned lead/zinc and flourite mines abound and I very much doubt I'll run out of stuff. Thanks for the offer though.

Oh, that's a neat one, sausage. I love the old conveyor route and the bridge. Good stuff!

It was a good day, plenty fresh air and good exercise. That coveyor must be nearly 3 quarters of a mile long. Its a hell of a structure. I love the picture of that cow. If anyone knows wht breed it is I would be interested as it looks like a rare breed.

A couple of mine:

This gives an idea of the length. It extended behind me for at least twice this length again.


And this is looking the other way.








Obligatory electrical stuff

Do you have any pics of the other quarry BigLoada? The one where they mine sandstone and red diesel?

Sausage said:

Do you have any pics of the other quarry BigLoada? The one where they mine sandstone and red diesel?

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Somewhere yes! I need to get on top of archiving. Its all in a mess at the moment. They are on the Flickr page but I never did figure out how to link from Flickr to here so I use Photobucket for forums.
I'll try and sort my photos out soon and get those up.

That looked like a good day sausage. And thats the funniest cow ive seen, at first i thought it had a skinny white head lol.

Thats one long conveyer!! and that cow is like Marlon Brando of the bovine world man