Tommy's Cuttings #6

The date of this article is uncertain.   However, from adverts on the reverse for a fair on Sunday 16 July & PYO strawberries, plus detail in the text, it seems to be from an Evening Chronicle of June 1978.

TR no longer runs England's most northerly steam train

The jovial inspector may have been Derek Charlton

The short 20p train ride was to Bowes Bridge

Marley Hill colliery closed in 1983, before the strike