63346 at Derwenthaugh on 20 May 1967
Photo used by kind permission of Trevor Ermel. His caption reads:
"63346 (Class Q6) heading west at Derwenthaugh (between Dunston and Blaydon) with a coal train for Stella South power station on 20th May 1967. I think it was recovering from a signal stop, hence the steam from the cylinder drains cocks. The bridge is over the River Derwent, flowing into the Tyne on the left. The buffer stop on the right was part of the NCB's Derwenthaugh system, which I got to know once steam on BR had finished in this part of the country in September 1967."
Derwenthaugh signal box can be seen on the right just after the bridge over the River Derwent. The engine has just passed signal no. 58 and the fine array of signals in the area can be seen in the distance.
63346 at Derwenthaugh on 20 May 1967
Photo used by kind permission of Trevor Ermel. His caption reads:
"63346 (Class Q6) heading west at Derwenthaugh (between Dunston and Blaydon) with a coal train for Stella South power station on 20th May 1967. I think it was recovering from a signal stop, hence the steam from the cylinder drains cocks. The bridge is over the River Derwent, flowing into the Tyne on the left. The buffer stop on the right was part of the NCB's Derwenthaugh system, which I got to know once steam on BR had finished in this part of the country in September 1967."
Derwenthaugh signal box can be seen on the right just after the bridge over the River Derwent. The engine has just passed signal no. 58 and the fine array of signals in the area can be seen in the distance.