Billy Embleton
Seaton Delaval workshops, the main engine shed
Construction on the shed commenced shorty after the establshment of HMC in 1929. This was the main workshop for the repair and overhaul of the companys large and diverse fleet of locomotives. The floor in this building was made up of wooden blocks.
When the workshops closed in 1964 the inspection pits shown in the photographs were filled in with locomotive spares and then concreted over. They are still there to this day.
Pictured undergoing a refit is HMC number 3. A much loved and photographed locomotive that was built by Robert Stephenson and Co at Forth Street Newcastle on Tyne in 1867 for the North Eastern Railway.
Amazingly this engine was working at Seaton Delaval and New Hartley until the 1950's and was scrapped in 1959 despite attempts to have it preserved.
Seaton Delaval workshops, the main engine shed
Construction on the shed commenced shorty after the establshment of HMC in 1929. This was the main workshop for the repair and overhaul of the companys large and diverse fleet of locomotives. The floor in this building was made up of wooden blocks.
When the workshops closed in 1964 the inspection pits shown in the photographs were filled in with locomotive spares and then concreted over. They are still there to this day.
Pictured undergoing a refit is HMC number 3. A much loved and photographed locomotive that was built by Robert Stephenson and Co at Forth Street Newcastle on Tyne in 1867 for the North Eastern Railway.
Amazingly this engine was working at Seaton Delaval and New Hartley until the 1950's and was scrapped in 1959 despite attempts to have it preserved.