A4 Class 4-6-2 Pacific No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' At Gateshead Depot (52A) - 'Steam Safari' Railtour - 17th June 1972
Gresley Class 4-6-2 A4 Pacific No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' at Gateshead Motive Power Depot (52A) after working the 'Steam Safari' railtour from Carlisle to Newcastle. The tour, if I remember correctly, originated at London St. Pancras and was ran by the A4 Locomotive Society. A second tour from St. Pancras ran to Newcastle and the A4 had earlier taken this railtour to Carlisle where it was taken on to St. Pancras by a deisel loco.
Any further information on this tour would be much appreciated.
Just a further note, the LNER lettering on the tender shows only the letter E on this picture. Other pictures I took on the same day clearly shows LNER on the left side of the tender. The image hasn't been altered in any way. I simply can't explain it.
I photographed this on 17th June 1972 and scanned it recently from a colour Kodak 35mm slide.
The area of the old Gateshead depot has now been redeveloped in a large housing area mainly of flats although a single line still connects at the front of them into Newcastle Central Station and onward to the ECML, Jarrow, and Sunderland and beyond.
A4 Class 4-6-2 Pacific No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' At Gateshead Depot (52A) - 'Steam Safari' Railtour - 17th June 1972
Gresley Class 4-6-2 A4 Pacific No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' at Gateshead Motive Power Depot (52A) after working the 'Steam Safari' railtour from Carlisle to Newcastle. The tour, if I remember correctly, originated at London St. Pancras and was ran by the A4 Locomotive Society. A second tour from St. Pancras ran to Newcastle and the A4 had earlier taken this railtour to Carlisle where it was taken on to St. Pancras by a deisel loco.
Any further information on this tour would be much appreciated.
Just a further note, the LNER lettering on the tender shows only the letter E on this picture. Other pictures I took on the same day clearly shows LNER on the left side of the tender. The image hasn't been altered in any way. I simply can't explain it.
I photographed this on 17th June 1972 and scanned it recently from a colour Kodak 35mm slide.
The area of the old Gateshead depot has now been redeveloped in a large housing area mainly of flats although a single line still connects at the front of them into Newcastle Central Station and onward to the ECML, Jarrow, and Sunderland and beyond.