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| Do you know where this was taken, or anything about the locos? |
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| Do you recognize this incline? Where is it? |
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| What's being built & where? |
Friday 4 February 2022
Can You Help?
I don't know the answer to any of the questions below. The first two are from Don Asher of the Midland Railway, the third is from Ian Cowan. If you have an idea for an answer, please add it in a comment.
4 comments:
Others will surely know better, but I believe that the locomotive in the centre may be Robert Stephenson Works No. 2241 of 1875, known as Milo and used at Seaham. The cut away section at the bottom of the coal-box just ahead of the cab distinguishes it from the similar "Mars".
Euan Cameron
Someone on Faceberg identified (rightly or wrongly) picture No.2 as "somewhere on the Waldridge Waggonway Nr. Chester-le-Street"
First image is possibly Percy Main showing two Fletcher NER 964 saddle tanks.
The second image is Newfield on the Stanley incline on the original Stanhope and Tyne Railroad.
I think Chris is right about the first photo. I had been thinking similarly as the locos look neglected and awaiting disposal. They were probably withdrawn about 1900 and would have been scrapped at Percy Main, the usual place used by NER until Darlington replaced it. The shed looks like the inside of the old B&T loco works and the clean pointing in the pit suggests it hasn't been used by working engines dripping oil. There are no smoke hoods. The works had stopped repairs before then.
The second picture is certainly at Newfield as Chris says. I think the NER called this section Waldridge Bank, just to confuse us with the bank of the same name on the Sacriston Railway next door.
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