Tomorrow's Trains

Tomorrow, ex Redheugh gasworks Sir Cecil A Cochrane will haul a mixed train, while ex Reyrolle No.2 will haul a two carriage passenger train a la North Sunderland Railway; ie there are two trains carrying passengers. 

Cochrane with a mixed train in February 2016
(photo courtesy of Dave Hewitt)

No.2 hauling a passenger train at Causey in February 2018
(photo courtesy of Ken Snowdon)

On the North Sunderland Railway, 'The Lady Armstrong' was a loco of the same batch built by Armstrong Whitworth as our ex Reyrolle No,2.   The loco was scrapped at Darlington in 1951 as BR wound up & closed the NSR.   The photos below were taken at Seahouses about 70 years ago.

The Lady Armstrong with a two carriage train for Chathill .....
(photo M Halbert collection)

..... & alongside a hired Y7 - the photo taken at the same time as above - crank rods & couplings in same position with front wheel on a dipped rail joint
(photo George Hearse)

Showing the air pump for the loco & train brakes
(photo by Les Charlton in July 1946)

In the final photo at Seahouses above, behind The Lady Armstrong is NSR No.2, an ex GER 6 wheel 6 compartment carriage which passed through Watts Hardy to the SSM&WCR, then half of the body to an allotment at Boldon Colliery, and finally about 40 years ago to Marley Hill where it subsequently fell to bits, some of which are still on site.

There is more information about the event on the main TR web, including a link to more about the North Sunderland Railway.