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70003 John Bunyan at Kingmoor
The sad, rusting hulk of 70003 John Bunyan sits silently in the August sunshine as a couple of young...
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Uploaded on Feb 20, 2012
45428 at Holbeck
70006, 70033, 70039 at Kingmoor
August 1967 but it's the end of the road for many of Kingmoor's Britannias. Here, three of them stand...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
45437 with a freight, passing Upperby
Saturday September 16th 1967, and steam has about three months left on the northern section of the...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
D6788 with brake tender
Taken around April 1965 this shows D6788, then about two years old, held at the Beamish home signal. (...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
Class 24 failure
One of Gateshead's Class 24s comes to the aid of another class member that has failed with a modest...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
70013 plods towards Blea Moor Tunnel
Brit 70013's last 'revenue earning' duty, and she was making hard work of the final stages of the long...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
70013 on the 'Fifteen guinea special'
I'd gone to Ribblehead in the forlorn hope that it would be quite quiet. As it was, most of Northern...
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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
48727 at Rose Grove 16th March 1968
I never thought I'd be grateful to see a load of 8Fs and black pigs, but I was more than happy to book...
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Uploaded on Feb 14, 2012
48451 at Rose Grove 16th March 1968
A bitterly cold March day (note the shed light still on) but, having travelled all the way from...
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48340 at Rose Grove 16th March 1968
48340 steams quietly on shed, and in the company of over 20 8Fs that morning. Around the corner 75032,...
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63458 at Beamish 30th March 1967
With fifty years of service to its credit ex NER T2, Q6 0-8-0 63458 passes the box at Beamish on a...
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Uploaded on Oct 11, 2011
62005 at Newcastle
K1 62005 takes a special north over Newcastle's diamond crossing and past a castle keep sinking under...
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Uploaded on Oct 7, 2011
Goodbye For Ever
Sunderland MPD, Autumn 1967 and shedmates WD 2-8-0 and a J27 await the call to the scrapyard. The...
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Uploaded on Oct 7, 2011
South Dock Revisited
Some time in 1986/7 I revisited South Dock shed, Sunderland for the first time since the end of steam....
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Uploaded on Oct 7, 2011
63458 pauses at Beamish.
Q6 63458, the penultimate numbered member of the class pauses at Beamish, March 1967. Over the years...
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Uploaded on Oct 7, 2011
NER Right hand drive?
Sunderland engine men were always a friendly lot. The Tyne Dock crew had let me steer a Q6 into the...
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Uploaded on Oct 6, 2011
63344 at Beamish
A bleak evening in March 1967 as ancient 0-8-0 Q6 63344 plods up the 1 in 56 grade to Consett with yet...
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Uploaded on Oct 6, 2011
RAILWAYS AND HERITAGE
STEAM BEFORE 1968
STEAM AFTER 1968
