Bowes Railway Company is a Registered Charity (No: 511691) and, although we receive grant aid from a number of sources, the success of our enterprise depends very much on the help given to us by individuals and organisations alike.

We'd like to convey special thanks to:

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
City of Newcastle upon Tyne Council
City of Sunderland Council
Baldwins Crane Hire
Continental Conveyors Ltd
Mines Rescue Service, Houghton-le-Spring
Northumbria Police and Ambulance
UK Coal
Royal Air Force, Army Air Corps, Royal Navy
St John's Ambulance Brigade
Thompson's of Prudhoe Ltd
Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade
United States Army and Air Force
German Army, Navy and Airforce
Belgian Army
Irish Air Corps
J M Engineering
M H Southern Ltd
Fergusons Transport Ltd

The above list is not exhaustive, and we apologise for any omissions. If you know of anything that needs adding, or can provide a logo or link for any of the above, contact us.

Website Contributors

Without the following contributors, this website would either not exist or its content would be severely depleted:

Ian Bowskill (Battle of Britain Locomotive Society) - photographs
Phillip Dawe, John Tulip, Dave Hardy, Alan Nicholson, Alison Gibson, Brian Carruthers - photographs
Peter Norman - help with initial web content and design, "Out and About" content, photographs, links
James Wylie Towler - the original concept, design and maintenance up to 2002 of the entire website, graphic design, photographs
and, of course, many others whose comments and contributions have been invaluable

And Finally ...

A very special thanks to all of our visitors, young and old.

This page last updated 14th January 2005