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Saturday, 18 June 2022

Hetton Carnival Celebration

14 passing the Colliery Inn .....
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)
..... & heading along .....
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)
..... Hetton main street
(photo courtesy of Oliver Humphries)
Among many other exhibits in the parade is Stafford's reconstruction of a black waggon
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)
14 turning in to Caroline Street ......
..... where it crosses the route of the 1822 Hetton Colliery Railway, where it ran until 1959
Tanfield folk pose in front of 14
(photo courtesy of Angela Pickering)
Today only, 14 on display in Hetton Country Park
(photo courtesy of Oliver Humphries)
From Beamish, the beam from the hauler atop Warden Law, the highest point on the HCR
A Sentinel super lightweight steam lorry in steam & on show
Stafford's tractor & the restored black waggon
Stafford's traction engine, with 14 beyond
(photo courtesy of Alex Tyson)
Angela & Peter pose with 14
In the marquee, a plate used for brass rubbing
Does anyone know anything about the loco?
An artwork in the park

3 comments:

Michael Denholm said...

Hawthorn Leslie works number 2564 built in 1903 was supplied new to the Ministry of Defence, Royal Navy Dockyard, Chatham, Kent. Named "Express" the locomotive spent 52 years at Chatham, being scrapped on site by George Cohen, Sons & Co., during October 1955.

TRBlogMaster said...

The following received from Peter Vout by email 19/06/2022 @ 11:52
"This loco was an 0 4 0 saddle tank built new for the Chatham Naval Dockyard and named Express. It was scrapped in 1951.
How the worksplate ended up in Hetton is probably a story in is own right!"

rob said...

Loco was restored in 1981 for beamish museum,
she ran between that date and 1994 when the boiler cert expired, she was repainted in her current livery 1987 when she was retubed