Tomorrow's Trains

Sir Cecil A Cochrane will haul mixed* trains from Andrews House at  10.30 am, noon, 1.30 pm & 3 pm  for Sunniside, Causey, East Tanfield & return.   Pre booked Winter Warmers are available on the 1.30 train.   The run round loop is not yet ready for use at East Tanfield, so AW No.2 will be used to release the train loco.

Sir Cecil is 4th from left on back row in this
1921 photo of Blyth Harbour Commissioners
(courtesy of Blyth correspondent Neil Morgan)

Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane MA, DCL, JP, 1869 - 1960, was Liberal MP for South Shields 1916-18, knighted at New Year 1933, chaired (1923-35) the council of Armstrong College (forerunner of Newcastle University) & was a director of several NE companies (Durham Mining Museum site lists Sir Cecil's mining directorships).  He was the chairman of Newcastle & Gateshead Gas Company at nationalization in 1949, just after the eponymous loco was delivered from RSH to Redheugh Gasworks.   Thanks to Peter Weightman, this loco was saved & has run since 1975 on Tanfield Railway.

Cochrane's boiler certificate at delivery

Sir Cecil A Cochrane at Andrews House last Sunday
(photo courtesy of Ken Snowdon - more tonight)

* Many light railways ran mixed trains, with passenger & goods vehicles together, to economize.