1954
NZ3034 : Up freight at Metal Bridge, near Tursdale Junction
taken 71 years ago, near to Cornforth, County Durham, England

Up freight at Metal Bridge, near Tursdale Junction
View northward, towards Durham, Newcastle etc.: ex-NE ECML. The Class H freight is headed by an ex-WD 'Austerity' in unusually smart, ex-Works condition. No. 90309, which started life as WD 7445 (later 77445) in 2/44 and was one of the only 50 (out of 450) put to work on the SR before its war service in NW Europe; it worked from Eastleigh until sent over in 12/44 and in 3/47 was back in England working on the LNER from Immingham, later at several other ER/NER Depots as No 90309, until eventually withdrawn in 7/67. (See also NZ3034 : Up 'Heart of Midlothian' on the ECML north of Ferryhill).