Locations to identify - new photos added.

[ArthurK]

My suggestion is North Blyth. The chimney is in the right place. So is the puddle!

ArthurK

[STAFFORDA4]

the WDs are definitely West Hartlepool 51C. I lived there in 67 and have similar shots. The North Sea is behind that wall in the left background so it was always a bit "nippy" around there. Getting shivers just looking at it....or is that me realising I was only 15 then?

[strang steel]

Thanks for the excellent info everyone.

Here is another; - roundhouse this time

[52A]

South Dock.

[ArthurK]

Thanks for the excellent info everyone.

Here is another; - roundhouse this time

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Pretty sure that is Sunderland. 65872 was a long time resident there. 65885 (?) was transferred there from its former shed (N. Blyth). Officially 65885 did not arrive at Sunderland until May 1967 whereas 65872 had been withdrawn in Jan 1967. Cross Tyne workings were unusual.

ArthurK

[52A]

South Dock.

[strang steel]

Thankyou, and to think these may have ended up in a black bin bag....


This next one still needs cleaning, and the negative is curled so doesn't all scan in focus, but the church tower should make i.d. easy for some.

[JASd17]

Sunderland Again.

St John's church on Prospect Row in the background.

John

[strang steel]

Brilliant, thanks very much.

I have been told that this one is West Hartlepool.

[JASd17]

West Hartlepool is very likely, 63440 was resident there from the late 1950s until withdrawal.

John

[strang steel]

I suspect this WD is at South Dock also.

[Mickey]

I am getting to like the WD 2-8-0s and strangely they aren't bad looking locos (it you look at them long enough). Recently I bought several dvds that featured archive film footage that was shot around the NE region of BR in the 1960s that features quite a few WDs and if I got it correct the NE area of the LNER bought a load of surplus WDs off the government at the end of WW2 because they wanted a more powerful heavy hauling freight loco similar to what the LMS had with there 8F 2-8-0s.

Mickey

[52D]

Very true Micky. Tweedmouth even got them biggest locos they ever had until the cast off Pacifics in the 1960s. by a strange coincidence Tweedmouth was home to No77002 later 63001 & 90001 then a few years later standard 2-6-0 77002 was allocated.

[STAFFORDA4]

I reckon the WD 9023x is on West Hartlepool shed

[60100]

Hi

Just found this today and purchased for £1. Full of atmosphere - one of Raven's Atlsntics. However, can't quite make out the location pencilled on reverse....any ideas?