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Iâm now back on the road after 4.5 years away, DAFs are much improved, wish the same could be said for the standards of driving out there!!
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Lincoln Farm on a Sunday midday change over Paper going south and wood pulp coming north .
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Wow! Those Komatsus are beasts, I dare say those pics were taken just along the road from me at Birtley
Not taken at Birtley. Donât think anything that big is produced there, usually just the 360 loader stuff.
The tipper is at some kind of show or exhibition, it is standing on artificial grass etc.
Not sure where the dozer was snapped but doubt it was Birtley.
Donât know about the first pic but the Komatsu in the 2nd is built in Germany.
Heavyweight Tracked Dumper with Cat Roots (earthmoversmagazine.co.uk)
Komatsuâs D475A itâs a bit of a beast (earthmoversmagazine.co.uk)
Found a press cutting from 2017, this machine was working in a quarry in Scotland. Presume the photo was taken there.
LOL, youâve reminded me of this place - needs no introduction for you @Gateshead
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Worswick St. station. All gone now, you wouldnât recognise that bottom end of the toon now
I imagine I wouldnât recognize large parts of central Newcastle these days, I bet all my favourite pubs have gone for one thing. I might have to indulge myself in a day out in town one of these days
Can you remember The Gay Trooper and Man in The Moon â â
Gay Trooper, no (perhaps thankfully 
)
Man in the Moon, oh yes, practically lived in that place at one time, but I think by the time I was going there it was properly named The Jubilee, even though everyone called it the Man in the Moon. I still kept going there when it became Trillions, which it still is.
Nothing to brag about but, (in my younger days) I was one of the very few people who managed to got thrown out of what was essentially âa hippie pubâ (quite literally thrown, if I recall correctly 
), it was due to a⌠ahem, âphysical altercationâ between myself and another âmusicianâ, naturally revolving around âa female of the speciesâ. I hasten to add this was during the days I tended to drink the likes of brown ale (Double Maxim in that pub obviously), it was my only proper fight of adult life, and to be absolutely honest âHe started itâŚâ but found he wasnât able to finish it 
The Monkey Bar and the The Percy were other favourites on our Friday night route from Worswick Street to The Mayfair. Ah⌠happy days (or should that be daze?)
Gay Trooper was a Vaux pub. It was just a door in the Newgate Shopping Centre and you went down a flight of stairs to get in. The Swallow Hotel (also Vaux) was above the shopping centre. All recently demolished and a new Maldron Hotel is on the site now.
Trillions still there, as you say, both myself and my better half use the opticians next door.
Not sure if youâve seen it but thereâs a video on Youtube which features RTs from London Transport getting refubished , very interesting
Thanks for that. Thorntons at Morpeth do a lot of refurbs for the tfl companies. Often see their low loaders loaded with a double decker on the A1.