Locomotion Shildon photographs

[Rlangham]

Had a nice day out (despite the weather!) 'up north' to Shildon to visit Locomotion. Superb collection and museum, last time I visited the plans for the NRM building had only just been announced.



LTC Rolt's Alvis 15/20



J52 looking very nice in GNR livery



North Eastern Railway '901' class 910



NER Snow Plough



Sad looking Austerity outside



The fantastic North Eastern Railway Bo-Bo Number 1 (of 2), later classified as the ES1



NER Breakdown Van sat outside - i'm presuming this is going to be restored in the near future?



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Formerly known as 'Bradyll', it now appears to be 'Nelson', the earliest surviving 0-6-0



Nice Great Northern Railway crane and match truck

More here;

http://photos-by-rob.photos.gb.com/c1689445.html

[third-rail]

Had a nice day out (despite the weather!) 'up north' to Shildon to visit Locomotion. Superb collection and museum, last time I visited the plans for the NRM building had only just been announced.



LTC Rolt's Alvis 15/20



J52 looking very nice in GNR livery



North Eastern Railway '901' class 910



NER Snow Plough



Sad looking Austerity outside



The fantastic North Eastern Railway Bo-Bo Number 1 (of 2), later classified as the ES1



NER Breakdown Van sat outside - i'm presuming this is going to be restored in the near future?



nom nom nom



Formerly known as 'Bradyll', it now appears to be 'Nelson', the earliest surviving 0-6-0



Nice Great Northern Railway crane and match truck

More here;

http://photos-by-rob.photos.gb.com/c1689445.html

great pictures on your web site ,considering the weather outside. but i would like to point out that the electric bo-bo shunters only worked between trafalger yard[manors] and newcastle quayside, they never worked to tyne dock ,just the weekly run to gosforth car sheds for servicing via the ecml .

[mick b]

Hi
The Breakdown Van photo is actually a Dia H2 or 3 ( cant remember which at mo) NER Stores van.
Nice pictures , anymore?

Mick

[Rlangham]

Thanks for the correction, i'll upload more later tonight or tomorrow. Richard, would you like hi-res copies of the LNER locomotives for the website?

Cheers, Rob

[richard]

Sure. I might not use them all, but some could be useful. (901 comes to mind).

Shame about the reflection on some of the photos - I had the same problem myself when I tried to photograph the D17 at the NRM.


Richard

[Rlangham]

Hi Richard, PM me whatever address you'd like them sending to and i'll get them off to you.

Interestingly, when I walked by the ES1, the sun showed up the original BR crest and '26500' underneath the NER paintwork!