1955
NZ4518 : Up freight from Newport Yard typically being thrashed out through Thornaby station by a NER 0-8-0
taken 71 years ago, near to Stockton-on-Tees, England
Up freight from Newport Yard typically being thrashed out through Thornaby station by a NER 0-8-0
View eastward from Thornaby station, towards Newport Yard, Middlesbrough, Saltburn etc. Locomotive crew are believed to have been paid bonuses in this District, based on distance moved as well as the normal hours of work, so they drove their engines flat-out and Thornaby was a marvellous spot to see pyrotechnics. Nevertheless these ex-NER Raven 0-8-0s thrived: here No. 63347 (pre-1946 No. 1254, built 3/13, withdrawn 10/65) is thrashing westward on a Class H train consisting mainly of flat-wagons conveying steel slabs from the great Tees-side Dorman-Long etc. Works. (See also NZ4518 : Down freight passing Thornaby station).
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- Grid Square
- NZ4518, 66 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Ben Brooksbank (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- 28 March 1955 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 25 March, 2012
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
NZ 452 184 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:33.5616N 1:18.0893W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: NZ 452 184
- View Direction
- East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
