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WD Austerity 2-10-0 No.90775 'The Royal Norfolk Regiment' seen not long after departing Sheringham with the 13.50 service to Holt on 21/4/19.
WD 2-8-0 90574 at Bletchley shed, in October 1962, with an 8F - and the distinctive water tower - in the background.. Photo probably taken from a passing train..
The loco was withdrawn in February 1964, and scrapped in June.. No examples survived into preservation in the UK, but a Swedish example was repatriated in the 1990s, and later rebuilt back to 'original' condition.
Bletchley shed closed in July 1965, and today (2016) the site is a car park..
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed grainy purple/magenta-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Armstrong Whitworth new to the LMS.
Taken during the war into army ownership it ended up at Hams Hall Power Station Birmingham , Named Royal Engineer and little used.
Modelled as it was there in the Mid 60`s
Brighter weather for WD 90417 bringing a coal train down the gradient near Sunderland Shed - on 20/6/67.
January 23rd, 1967
Healey Mills
Goole WD 2-8-0 90099 arrives with a long heavy coal train from the Wakefield direction.
Ref B4-122
Wakefield Shed seemed to be on the agenda so we called in there only to find one loco in steam - WD 90160. She was withdrawn only a few weeks later. Shot taken on 17/6/67.
Once again another re-upload of this Austerity WD 2-10-0, 90775.
Built in 1943 by the North British Locomotive Co.
Shipped straight to Egypt for war work, then sold to the Hellenic State Railway, Greece in 1945.
Returned to UK in 1984.
Now in ownership of the North Norfolk Railway, Sheringham.
Seen here passing the Sheringham golf course on it's way to Weybourne.
This batch completes the remainder of my Northern weeks trip.
On 19/6/67 a pretty grimy WD, 90061 , hauls coal past a string of vans at west Hartlepool. This loco only lasted out another month.
The shell of the WD Fairfiield, a dredger towed to the banks of the Mersey to be cut up for scrap. The. work did not go quite to plan as the crane used for the break up toppled over into river. A bigger crane had to brought in to lift the first one out.