Russell Piggot ha s assisted in identifying the train as:
”A Q6 Class 6 0-8-0.”
Thanks to Russell for the update.
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I think the caption says all there is to say about this photo
Sandsend Viaduct, with local train A view of Sandsend Viaduct with a local commuter train from Whitby approaching. Sadly this picturesque line, which skirted the coast all the way from Saltburn to Whitby and from Whitby to Scarborough, has vanished, leaving only the mineral railway from Saltburn to Boulby Potash Mine. The locomotive leading the mixed passenger/goods train is an ex-Great Central Railways Robinson A5 4-6-2 Pacific tank - well at home on this demanding coastal line.
Preserved K1 Class, 62005, rounds the bend at Huntcliff, passing the remains of the old Guibal Fanhouse on a Trainspotter’s Special on the 10th May 2008
Now you train spotters out there where is this I know you wil be able to tell me, just reminds me of Thomas the Tank Engine Derick Pearson with assistance from Russ Piggott informs us: 43073. is definitely a Ivatt Class 4 and the last photo I have of her is leaving Roose Railway station, Barrow-in-Furness in 1960. Where she ended up I do not know. 67663. Was a V1 2-6-2T Gresley. The Class V3 Gresley was introduced 1939, built on the same chassis and everything else. Appearance was much the same as the V1 but the V3 had a Higher Boiler Pressure. This one is the earlier V1. 63340. Is as Russ says a Q6. It was originally a N.E.R class T2 0-8-0. Classified as a Q6 by the L.N.E.R. 120 were built at Darlington works between 1913 and 1921 to the design of Vincent Raven. They were based on the N.E.R Class T and T1- L.E.N.R – Q5s. 67685. Was A Gresley 3 cyl V3. The last reference I have to her is at Battersby Junction near Gt Ayton. (photo courtesy of Mike Holliday, but now known to be from a CD produced by Derick Pearson.)
This is a BR Standard loco, number 77012, standing light engine in Kettleness Station. Another station which has found a new lease of life – as a Scout Activity Centre – the coast line being closed some 5 years before Dr Beeching. Useage was only heavy in the summer, whilst the tunnels and bridges were expensive to maintain. (Thanks to Simon Chapman).
Obviously pre 1958 with a steam train, headed by Class L1 2-6-4t.No.67750 was constructed by the North British Locomotive Co. (NB Loco.Co) and was entered into British Railways active records on 9th December 1948. It was withdrawn from service on 9th December 1961. Approaching Easington and the tunnel from Loftus, at the former site of Grinkle station (Easington)with a Whitby to M’bro train. The original photograph was taken by the late Ken Hoole and the Ken Hoole Study Centre at Darlington owns the negative. Thanks to Alan Featonby and Chris Davies for the updates and confirmation of location.
Here L1 2-6-4T number 67754 stands adjacent to the signal box with a mixed train of 2nd/3rd class composite coaches, the first carriage being quite a modern example, while the rest are pre-1939. Engine no 67754 was in charge of the last passenger train from Whitby to Loftus, in 1958. on the left of the photo behind the boys on the platform can be seen a camping coach, several of the stations between here and Scarborough had these carriages in sidings at the stations, for holliday makers. thank you for that information Eric, all help gratefully accepted, joanj. The old station building still stands, it is now a private house, but still is an obvious former railway building.
Okay you railway buffs out there I know this is a train and I know it’s a steam train ’cos I can see the steam, but now I await you telling me more about it. That’s a WD on a train from Skinningrove at Huntcliffe, roughly where the ring shaped sculpture is, making a racket no doubt, it looks windy but the exhaust is been blasted skywards. Thank you Mark, I new some gentleman would come along and tell me all about it. (image courtesy of Eric Johnson)
A long while later and the platform has gone, the car park has arrived and a special makes its way from Redcar towards Black Bridge (must be a preserved loco on a charter run). |
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