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Saturday, 7 May 2022

TRF Darlington & Shildon

Tanfield Railway Friends today visited Darlington Loco Works to see the new build P2, followed by the works at Shildon to view the new build G5.
The P2 2-8-2 has frames, wheels, smokebox & cab
TR Friends .....
..... watching a video & having the project explained by Dave Elliott
Friends looking around the P2 & workshop
Mary studying the wheels & frames
Susan & Malcolm having an explanation from Dave
Susan passing on information to Bob, Aidan & Alfie
Outside the works is an EE type 3 diesel loco built in Darlington .....
..... by English Electric at the works which they took over from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn
The TR Friends moved on to visit the G5 base at Shildon
Alfie studying the G5 boiler
A talk about the G5 & share issue ......
..... to an attentive group of friends

2 comments:

Alfie G said...

An excellent, very informative day with a great group of the TR Friends!

Malcolm'Cruncher'Sunter said...

Malcolm Sunter aka Cruncher chairman of the Friends
the day out to see the P2 & G5 was successful and enjoyable (with no incidents!!) The Friends intend to do visits to many other places of interest in the future so keep watching for email notification or suggestions of where you would like to go? Cheers