Engines Collection (page 18)

The driver of the Intercity 225 electric train inside his cab on 10th June 1991

The new type of electric train departed from Newcastle Central Station on its South Shields run at 11 o clock on 10th February 1955. A passenger boards the train

An electric train used on the Newcastle coast line on 16th June 1952, which has a special coach for perambulators (prams)

Train driver Bob Elington with a new Intercity 225 electric train on 7th August 1991

The L. N. E. R.s latest electric train made its inaugural run on the Newcastle to coast
The L.N.E.R.s latest electric train made its inaugural run on the Newcastle to coast line on 30th July 1937. The express approaches the Newcastle Central Station at the end of the run from Tynemouth

An deisel engine being inspected on 26th April 1972

Two Inter-City 225 trains parked up in the Central Station, Newcastle on 15th June 1994, the morning of the signalmans strike

Some Inter-City 225s and 125s standing at Heaton Depot on 29th July 1998

An engineer taking a break from working on this old steam locomotive on 21st August 1972

LNER Engine No. 4771 making its way past the crowds on the Shildon to Darlington line at the 150 anniversary celebrations on 31st August 1975

A steam train rolling on the private line of Tanfield Railway on 23rd March 1984

Mike Forrester on a ACC5 Pecket engine built in 1939 called Ashington No.5 on 24th March 1994

One of the steam locomotives at Tanfield Railway near Stanley, County Durham doing one of its summer runs on 20th June 1993

The Sir Cecil A. Cochrane, one of the engines at Tanfield Railway on 31st August 1981

LNER Engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley, and a Stirling steam locomotive making their way past the crowds on the Shildon to Darlington line at the 150 anniversary celebrations on 31st August 1975

Alison Ashby, nine, and fellow pupils from Marley Hill School are helping to clean up Sunniside Station and some of the line which is part of Tanfield Railway on 5th October 1986

Sara Brooks, Alison Brooks and Ann Tuck are helping out at an open day at Tanfield Railway on 7th April 1980

Restoration engineer Grodon Stark, on the flat bed is helping to move an anciet wagon at the Stephenson Rail Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 5th February 1998

Engine No. 60163 Tornado Peppercorn Class Al Pacific steam locomotive which was build in 1990 by a group of enthusiasts on 27th September 1997

A new steam age got under way in the North East as the inaguarel train broke a small tape to open the Bowes Railway Museum on 12th April 1981

Alan Hogg, aged 13, from Heaton, cleans up the sir Cecil A. cochrane engine before the visitors arrive at Gatesheads own preserved railway on 7th April 1980

Martin Smith from Tanfield Railway Museum with the brightly coloured 0-6-0 industrial locomotive used to shunt cement wagons along a branch line into the depot of Castle Cement (Ribblesdale) Ltd

Peter Weightman of Jesmond at the controls of an 0-4-0 engine, built in the 1880s, at the Marley Hill Steam Centre, which held an open day on 14th April 1974

Lou Avis of Siemens Electronics takes a look at the 1909 Siemens engine being restored at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 18th January 1996

Restoration engineer Grodon Stark is helping to move an anciet wagon at the Stephenson Rail Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 5th February 1998

Peter Wakeman and Mel Deighton who restored the Victorian railway carriage at Tanfield Railway on 30th January 1994

Paul Grounsell senior museum attendant finishes the nameplates for the restored locomotive Jackie Milburn which bell be named today at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink

Les Ferguson from the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields, with their lates aquisition Engine No.1313 a Swedish B Class 4-6-0 tender engine on 7th July 1995

Michael Nelson, 9, from Sunningdale School, sunderland on a steam locomotive at Bowers Museum on 15th July 1996

Visitors wath the steam trains in action at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 4th May 1997

Children from Sunningdale School, Sunderland on a steam locomotive at Bowes Railway Museum on 15th July 1996

Laura Milson, 3, of Whitley Bay, thanks the engine driver, Ken Hedley at the North Tyneside Stephenson Railway Museum, after riding on the Teddy Bear Special on 29th August 1998

The Silver Jubilee steam locomotive steams up the Tyne Valley towards Alston on 3rd April 1998

This little 040 tank engine has arrived to double the steam power at the Bowes Railway depot at Springlwell on 7th May 1981

Vic Gascoigne of Sunniside, a former NCB engine driver, getting ready to take visitors on trips along the newly gifted track on Gatesheads own preserved railway on 7th April 1980

Members of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies (from left); David Morgan, Eric Maxwell and Peter Overstone at the Tanfield Railway Company, Sunniside, Gateshead on 13th April 1986

Eric Maxwell with some of his engines at Tanfield Railway on 14th June 1984

Christopher Awdery looks over theoriginal ticket office at Monkwearmohth Station Museum, Sunderland on 19th June 1998

Dave Westcott of Derby throws his hat up in a salute to the little Sussex based Terrier class " Fenchurch" tank engine on 31st August 1975

Steam locomotive No. 2005 at Newcastle Central Station on 13th June 1987, on its way to Glasgow to work the West Highlander steam service between fort william and Mallaig

Malcolm Brown left, and Gordon Bainbridge, beside a fire damaged guards van and hopper on 30th June 1985

A lottery grant facelift begins for the 1909 Siemens locomotive as its is lifted on to a lorry at the Stephensons Railway Museum on 6th February 1998 for a round trip to restorers in Scotland

Tanfield Railway Association guard Bob Payne flags away the newly-commissioned Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1911 at the Marley Hill track on 23rd May 1984

Engine No. 4472 The Flying Scotsman at sidings in Shildon on 22nd August 1975
Engine No.4472 The Flying Scotsman at sidings in Shildon on 22nd August 1975

Rail enthusiasts of all ages had an apportunity to recapture the pas on 10th May 1969 when the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman came to Newcastle on what could be its last visit to the North East

There was a brisk sale in platform tickets when Engine No.4472 The Flying Scotsman called at Central Station, Newcastle to take on water on 3rd June 1967

Engine No. 4472 The Flying Scotsman at Newcastle Central Station on 8th May 1964
Engine No.4472 The Flying Scotsman at Newcastle Central Station on 8th May 1964

Crowds of train enthusiasts lined the platforms at Carlisle Station on 15th May 1965 to see Engine No.4472 The Flying Scotsman

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