Strick's Serbistan, newly-delivered from John Readhead & Sons (ship 617), in July 1966. The red shed to the right of the picture is Harton High Staith, squeezed between Readhead's & Middle Docks. The loading point for hoppers carrying pit waste from Westoe/Harton/Whitburn colliery, it became the site of a car scrap yard and eventually disappeared under MacNulty’s down-river extension of the former Readhead yard. A short length of railway track crossing the adjacent roadway is all that remains of this part of the Harton Electric Railway.

Thanks Dennis

And I wonder how many times I have driven over these rails without giving them a second thought?



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You and me both, Dave.

Subsequent History:

75 STRATHANGUS - 78 KELLET ISLAND - 83 GOLDEN BEAR

Disposal Data:

BU Kaohsiung 19.3.88 [Richian Steel Industrial Co]

An aerial view of the rails across the road at bottom right and the remains of the staiths top left.



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Albert Weller slide, Middlesbrough Dock, circa September 1971: Ron

Serbistan at Brigham & Cowan in 1966, presumably a pre-delivery docking.

A picture that tells more than one story. Looking at the hull painting, do you think it might have been for a guarantee dry docking?