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Stockton And Darlington Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![With various components already removed, one of the attractive W Worsdell J25 0-6-0s, no 65695, still carrying its 52H Tyne Dock shed plate, awaits its fate in the yard at Darlington Works in the early 1960s.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/29000/29765.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Condemned class J73 0-6-0T no 68359, latterly of 51C West Hartlepool, stands in the yard at Darlington works awaiting cutting up. The J73s were all withdrawn by BR between 1955 and 1960.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/30000/30145.jpg "Darlington Works")
![A3 Pacific 60076 <I>Galopin</I> at Darlington Shed in April 1951.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/04/1951]](/images/9000/9321.jpg "Darlington")
![D49 4-4-0 no 62730 <I>Berkshire</I>, withdrawn from Selby at the end of 1958, photographed in the yards at Darlington Works in 1959 with 67281 behind [see image 28646]. The locomotive was cut up here in May of that year.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/28000/28386.jpg "Darlington Works")
![G5 0-4-4T no 67281 standing in the works yard at Darlington in 1959 behind 62730 [see image 28386]. This was possibly the last surviving example of a G5 and had been withdrawn by BR the previous year.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/28000/28646.jpg "Darlington Works")
![One of the large BR class A5 4-6-2T locomotives (originally GC class 9N) no 69828, awaits its fate in the yards at Darlington Works in early 1959. The locomotive had been withdrawn from Colwick shed in November the previous year. <br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/28000/28681.jpg "Darlington Works")
![J27 no 65891 of 50C Selby shed stands in Darlington works yard in August 1959. Other locomotives in the yard at that time include Q6s, a V2 and a WD Austerity.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/08/1959]](/images/24000/24363.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67617 at Darlington Works, thought to have been taken around 1960. The locomotive was finally withdrawn from St Margarets shed in August 1962 and made its final journey here in September 1963 for cutting up. [With thanks to all those who assisted with this query]<br><br>[K A Gray //1960]](/images/43000/43765.jpg "Darlington Works")
![A winter's day in the yards at Darlington works in early 1960. On the left is one of the large Gresley A8 4-6-2 tanks, no 69873, (rebuilt from the original Raven NER D class 4-4-4T) withdrawn from 54A Sunderland South Dock and cut up here in February of that year. <br><br>[K A Gray /02/1960]](/images/28000/28830.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Immaculate looking B16 4-6-0 no 61429 standing in the sidings at Darlington shed in May 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/05/1960]](/images/41000/41648.jpg "Darlington")
![Gresley class D49 no 62727 <I>The Quorn</I> awaits the cutter's torch in Darlington works scrapyard on 12 March 1961, around 2 months after being withdrawn from 53A Hull Dairycoates shed. Disposal date is recorded as 7 weeks later on 30 April 1961. [Note the locomotive's nameplate is still attached!]<br>
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<br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/03/1961]](/images/24000/24066.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Gleaming Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 60974 stands in the yard outside Darlington works, thought to be in June 1961. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from York shed at the end of 1963 and brought back here for cutting up in the works scrapyard.<br><br>[K A Gray /06/1961]](/images/23000/23810.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Gresley V1 2-6-2T no 67622, withdrawn from 65C Parkhead shed in May 1962, awaits the cutter's torch at grey and overcast Darlington Works later that year.<br><br>[K A Gray //1962]](/images/31000/31581.jpg "Darlington Works")
![A gleaming B16 4-6-0 no 61434 in the sidings alongside Darlington Works, thought to have been photographed in January 1962. The locomotive would soon return to its home depot at York, where it was based throughout the BR period until its eventual withdrawal in June 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray /01/1962]](/images/47000/47770.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Part of Darlington Works scrapyard showing the <I>stores</I> in May 1962. These stores, based on the grounded body shells of two former <I>Sentinal</I> locomotives, would have held cutting gear and various tools and equipment necessary to carry out the day to day work of the yard. The two Sentinals already subjected to the cutters torch in this unusually creative way are nos 68149, formerly of 51F, West Auckland and 68180, late of 50C, Selby. The building in the background is North Road station, while behind the camera, on the south side of what is now a green field, stands the old Stockton & Darlington Railway's Hopetown carriage works, recently in the news as the location where 60163 <I>Tornado</I> was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust [See image 21065]. <br>
<br><br>[David Pesterfield 27/05/1962]](/images/23000/23689.jpg "Darlington Works")
![A trio of B16 locomotives, nos 61443, 61413 & 61415, awaiting the cutters torch in Darlington Scrapyard on 27 May 1962. All 3 had been officially withdrawn by BR in September 1961 from York, Mirfield and Hull Dairycoates respectively.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 27/05/1962]](/images/25000/25245.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Partially dismantled class J21 0-6-0 no 65099 stands in the yard at Darlington Works on 27 May 1962. This locomotive had initially been identified as a possible candidate for preservation, but was eventually cut up here in early 1966.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 27/05/1962]](/images/26000/26302.jpg "Darlington Works")
![67636 at West Auckland on 13 October 1962, some 4 months after the station had lost its passenger service. The V3 had worked into nearby West Auckland Colliery on the first stage of the <I>Durham Railtour</I> which it had handed over to B16 no 61418.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/10/1962]](/images/25000/25076.jpg "West Auckland")
![B16 4-6-0 no 61418 is about to get underway with the <I>Durham Rail Tour</I> in the yard at West Auckland Colliery on 13 October 1962, having taken over from V3 no 67636. The train is about to run over West Auckland level crossing and commmence the next leg of the tour which will take the train to Port Clarence. [With thanks to Bill Jamieson]<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 13/10/1962]](/images/25000/25127.jpg "West Auckland Colliery")
![B16 4-6-0 no 61418 with the SLS/MLS/Kings College <I>'Durham Rail Tour'</I> leaving West Auckland Colliery on 13 October 1962 on its way to Port Clarence.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/10/1962]](/images/34000/34898.jpg "West Auckland Colliery")
![Scene in the sidings at West Auckland Colliery on 13 October 1962, with B16 4-6-0 no 61418 having taken over the SLS/MLS/Kings College <I>'Durham Rail Tour'</I>. The special had arrived from Durham behind V3 no 67636 and the B16 was preparing to take charge for the next leg to Port Clarence.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/10/1962]](/images/35000/35417.jpg "West Auckland Colliery")
![J27 0-6-0 65796 looking resplendent in the yard at Darlington Works in early 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray //1963]](/images/45000/45334.jpg "Darlington Works")
![The works yard at Darlington in late 1963, with newly built Type 2 diesels D5231 and D5232 in the left background. A product of the same works 44 years previously, is Raven Q7 0-8-0 no 63460, the most powerful freight locomotive built by the NER (as class T3 in 1919), withdrawn by BR at the end of 1962 and destined for preservation as part of the National Collection. Railscot note: All 15 Q7s ended their operational days at Tyne Dock shed, being utilised primarily to haul iron ore trains from the coast up to Consett Iron Works on the western edge of County Durham. On steeper sections of the line a second Q7 was used as a banker. The locomotives were eventually displaced in the late 1950s by the arrival at Tyne Dock of new BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0s. No 63460 is currently on display inside North Road Museum [see image 18893].<br><br>[K A Gray 26/10/1963]](/images/23000/23722.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Withdrawn from Polmadie shed on the last day of 1962, BR Standard Pacific no 72002 <I>Clan Campbell</I> stands in the works reception sidings at Darlington MPD in October 1963. The nameplates etc have been removed and the locomotive has been partially stripped down... speaking of which... [Railscot note] the name applied in chalk to the space previously occupied by the official nameplate is <I>Mandy Rice-Davies</I>, who appeared in the headlines regularly that year, along with her flatmate Christine, a government minister named Profumo and a Russian spy named Ivanov. The Pacific is recorded as being cut up at Darlington in September 1963. As of 2010 Mandy is reportedly a 65 year old living quietly in Surrey with her third husband, having undergone (in her own words) 'the slow descent into respectability'.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 26/10/1963]](/images/29000/29652.jpg "Darlington")
![Immaculate looking J27 0-6-0 no 65804 photographed in October 1963 in the yard at Darlington Works. The locomotive survived until July 1967 when it was finally withdrawn from Sunderland shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/10/1963]](/images/41000/41452.jpg "Darlington Works")
![A rake of what at first glance appears to be 16t mineral wagons passes Bowesfield box to the west of Thornaby in October 1970 behind class 37 No. 6898. On closer inspection it can be seen that they are actually iron ore tipplers, most likely conveying imported iron ore from South Bank to either Corby, Spring Vale (Wolverhampton) or Stanton Gate (Ilkeston), all of which were served from Teesside around that time. Interestingly there were also loaded back workings conveying ironstone from Northamptonshire to Hartlepool and Skinningrove. A number of ironstone quarries in the East Midlands were still operational in 1970, the last not ceasing production until 1980 when Corby steelworks closed.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/10/1970]](/images/34000/34257.jpg "Bowesfield Junction")
![Stanier Pacific no 6201 <i>Princess Elizabeth</i> passing over Masons Arms level crossing, Shildon, in September 1975 as part of the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. The upstairs window of the Masons Arms itself looks like the ideal vantage point for an enthusiast with a camera on such an occasion. <br><br>[John Thorn //1975]](/images/38000/38270.jpg "Shildon")
![Commemorative plaque at Shildon. [See image 17282]<br><br>[John Thorn //1975]](/images/38000/38277.jpg "Shildon")
![<I>Locomotion</I> working replica at Shildon in 1975 during the Stockton & Darlington Railway anniversary celebrations. <br><br>[John Thorn /08/1975]](/images/38000/38294.jpg "Shildon")
![Preserved ex-LNER class D49 4-4-0 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> on display at Shildon Wagon Works in September 1975 during the exhibition held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway [see image 17282].<br><br>[John Thorn /09/1975]](/images/38000/38245.jpg "Shildon Wagon Works")
![Scene at Shildon Wagon Works in September 1975 during the exhibition held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Preserved ex-LNER class D49 4-4-0 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> is amongst the exhibits on display. [See image 38245]<br><br>[John Thorn /09/1975]](/images/38000/38388.jpg "Shildon Wagon Works")
!['Steam 150' Ready to go, with <I>Locomotion</I> at the head of the cavalcade. Will we ever see so much steam in one place again?? <br><br>[John Thorn /09/1975]](/images/38000/38491.jpg "Shildon")
![<b>Wagon plate</B> bearing legend <i>B953451 - 20T - Darlington - 1957 - Lot No 3012</i> from wagon at Arnott Youngs, Dalmuir for breaking up. No body but appeared to be two platform end brake van.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 01/11/1979]](/images/13000/13547.jpg "Darlington Works")
![56046 passing Eaglescliffe in August 1997 with a freight off the Northallerton line bound for industrial Teesside. The train has just cleared Eaglescliffe South Junction with the Darlington route diverging west beyond the rear of the train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/08/1997]](/images/5000/5276.jpg "Eaglescliffe")
![A Bishop Auckland - Saltburn service stands at Darlington North Road in February 2004.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004]](/images/7000/7099.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![Looking to Shildon. It was here that the Locomotion No 1 was assembled.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004]](/images/22000/22466.jpg "Heighington")
![The main exhibition hall at the National Railway Museum at Shildon, built on the site of a former yard. View is east on 2 November 2004, with the Bishop Auckland - Darlington line running past on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/2004]](/images/2000/2165.jpg "Shildon")
![Looking north west towards Shildon station from Spout Lane road bridge in November 2004. The fence marks the boundary of the NRM site, with access to the yard and main exhibition hall via the gate on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/2004]](/images/4000/4782.jpg "Shildon")
![Old stabling point (and origin of the term). The former yards at Shildon on 4 November 2007. The building on the other side of the crossing was opened by the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1827 to provide stables for the horses used to haul coal tubs on the Black Boy Colliery branch. The building is now incorporated within the grounds of Shildon National Railway Musem. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17247.jpg "Shildon")
![Although the structure is suffering from the effects of subsidence, the old coal drops at Shildon have survived and now form a key exhibit within the grounds of the NRM. View east on 4 November 2007 towards Shildon station. The line in the picture is part of the NRM site and links the open area of the museum at the western end of the location with the main exhibition hall off picture in the right background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17281.jpg "Shildon")
![The old coal drops at Shildon seen looking west on 4 November 2007. The listed structure is now incorporated within the grounds of Shildon National Railway Museum.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17282.jpg "Shildon")
![View southeast from Spout Lane road bridge on 4 November 2007 showing the main <I>Locomotion</I> exhibition hall and sidings at NRM Shildon, as a class 142 runs past to the left on a Saltburn - Bishop Auckland service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17397.jpg "Shildon")
![View northwest from Spout Lane road bridge on 4 November with a Saltburn - Bishop Auckland train running towards Shildon station. The station stands alongside the old S&D coal drops which are now incorporated within the NRM site. The line running up to the gate in the foreground gives rail access to the main exhibition hall and associated sidings on the other side of the road bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17398.jpg "Shildon")
![A class 142 DMU leaving Shildon on 4 November 2007 en route from Bishop Auckland to Darlington and, ultimately, Saltburn. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17551.jpg "Shildon")
![The 1842 station at North Road, Darlington undergoing refurbishment on 4 November 2007 (reopening Spring 2008). The site is now home to the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/17000/17608.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![A cold November morning in 2007 sees a Bishop Auckland - Saltburn Pacer about to restart following a stop at Shildon.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/56000/56848.jpg "Shildon")
![Looking west towards Shildon station from Spout Lane road bridge on 4 November 2007 as a train calls on its way to Bishop Auckland. The 13.00 ex-Saltburn is formed by Northern Pacer 142065. The Shildon NRM site is off to the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/11/2007]](/images/61000/61690.jpg "Shildon")
![Main entrance to Darlington North Road Railway Centre and Museum on 4 April 2008, the day before official reopening took place following extensive refurbishment and major roof repairs. Trains still call at North Road, which stands on the former Stockton & Darlington route, and is nowadays served by the Northern Trains Bishop Auckland - Saltburn service. The remaining operational platform, located on the north side of the building, is now accessed via a public walkway off to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18572.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![Interior of the former ticket office at Darlington North Road on 4 April 2008, now part of the recently refurbished Railway Centre and Museum.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18710.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![The passenger side of the refurbished ticket office at Darlington's North Road museum on 4 April 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18714.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![Part of the refurbished exhibition hall at the former S&D North Road station on 4 April 2008, the day before the official reopening of the North Road Railway Centre and Museum. In the background is NER Class T3 (LNER Class Q7) 0-8-0 No. 901 (BR No. 63460) [See image 23722]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18893.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![The approach to North Road station along the Stockton & Darlington route from Shildon on 4 April 2008. The remaining operational platform is on the other side of the fence on the left and is served by Bishop Auckland - Saltburn trains operated by Northern Rail. The remainder of the site is now part of the recently refurbished Darlington North Road Railway Centre and Museum.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18894.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![The old Stockton & Darlington goods shed at North Road on 4 April 2008, in use by the Darlington Railway Preservation Society who are currently in the process of restoring BR Standard class 2MT 2-6-0 78018. [With thanks to Paul Bailey] [See image 62816]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18928.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![View over the east side of the Stockton and Darlington North Road station, looking towards Shildon. Behind the barrier on the right is the operational platform served by trains on the Bishop Auckland - Saltburn line, now accessed via a direct pedestrian link from North Road itself (behind the camera). On this side of the fence are the buildings of what is now North Road Museum, seen here on 4 April 2008, the day before the official reopening, following the successful completion of major refurbishment work on the whole complex (including the station platform and trainshed). On the north side of the line further on stood the North Eastern Railway locomotive works, much of which is now covered by industrial and retail developments.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/20000/20423.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![Close-up of the former works clock now attached to the wall of Morrisons superstore in North Road, Darlington, where the great locomotive works founded by the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1863 once stood. Darlington works was closed by BR in 1966.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel /10/2008]](/images/21000/21681.jpg "Darlington Works")
![Built in 1863 by the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Darlington Locomotive Works, or <I>North Road Shops</I> as it was known locally, became the towns largest employer (peak of 3,815 in 1954). Following its eventual closure in 1966, the site lay derelict for some time but is now occupied by a number of retail outlets, including a large Morrisons Superstore. This view up North Road on 4 October 2008 shows the refurbished Darlington Works clock, now attached to the east wall of the Superstore and serving as a small memento of what once stood there.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/10/2008]](/images/21000/21053.jpg "Darlington Works")
![View northwest along Hopetown Lane, Darlington, on 4 October showing the south end of the Stockton & Darlington Railway's Hopetown Carriage Works. It was from these doors on 1 August 2008 that the newly constructed A1 Pacific 60163 <I>Tornado</I> made its first public appearance running under its own steam.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/10/2008]](/images/21000/21064.jpg "Hopetown Carriage Works")
![Southwest of Darlington's North Road station, across what was once the scrapyard of Darlington Works and is now an empty field, stands the old Hopetown Carriage Works. The building was opened in 1853 as a workshop of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and has seen many occupants over the past 150+ years. Part of the central section was used after World War 2 by A H Peppercorn, last CME of the LNER, while more recently the NELPG has used the northern section for locomotives undergoing heavy maintenance and repair. The southern section was in the news recently as the <I>works</I> in which 60163 <I>Tornado</I> was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. Photographed on 4 October 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/10/2008]](/images/21000/21065.jpg "Hopetown Carriage Works")
![With the old S&D station now a museum, the 2008 entrance to the remaining operational platform at North Road is in McNay Street to the south of the station (with North Road itself running just off to the right). The steps ascend alongside the east wall of the old Stockton & Darlington Railway goods shed (which is now used by the Darlington Railway Preservation Society). [See image 18928]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/10/2008]](/images/21000/21141.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![Northern 142065 calls at North Road, Darlington, with the 1000 Saltburn - Bishop Auckland on 24 April 2009. The station building, seen in the background, is now a museum, with access to the current operational North Road platform via steps from McNay Street just off picture to the left. [See image 21141]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/23000/23699.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![A Saltburn - Bishop Auckland DMU leaves Darlington North Road in April 2009. The buildings to the left of the green fence now form part of the Railway Museum. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/30000/30877.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![The overall roof over a section of the through platform at North Road, Darlington in April 2009 looking west towards Bishop Auckland. Trains no longer stop under the roof but use the eastern end of the platform nearest the McNay Street entrance. It does however appear to be much appreciated by the local pigeons. [See image 30877]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/41000/41544.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![The trackbed of the Bishop Auckland - Barnard Castle line in a cutting on the western edge of Cockfield Fell, looking south west in September 2010. The general formation and cutting sides still look fairly neat, given the photograph was taken 58 years after closure.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 13/09/2010]](/images/37000/37551.jpg "Cockfield")
![The 14.00 <I>Northern</I> DMU from Saltburn to Bishop Auckland slows for the Shildon stop on 23 November 2010. On this side of the fence is the NRM site with the north wall of the main exhibition hall to the right. The view is east from the end of the 'excursion platform' located within the site and shows one of the coal wagons for which Shildon works became famous during its later years (over 10,000 HAA wagons were built there - almost the whole fleet).<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2010]](/images/31000/31589.jpg "Shildon")
![Shildon signal box, seen from the NRM site in November 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2010]](/images/34000/34654.jpg "Shildon")
![Dating from 1856, the Victorian coal drops at Shildon are now listed structures included within the grounds of the railway museum. View east towards Spout Lane road bridge and the main exhibition hall on 23 November, 2010, with maintenance work in progress around the foot crossing linking the museum site with Shildon station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2010]](/images/62000/62899.jpg "Shildon")
![The signal box at Shildon in October 2012. The box stands to the east of Shildon station. <br><br>[Colin Alexander 13/10/2012]](/images/46000/46239.jpg "Shildon")
![A Saltburn to Bishop Auckland service pulls in to Shildon station. 142022 has just passed two sets of steps, used by the Shildon signaller for collecting/handing over the single line token. However, this is only required for the Weardale freight trains that continue beyond Bishop Auckland and not the DMUs that terminate there.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/11/2012]](/images/41000/41233.jpg "Shildon")
![Scene at Heighington on 19 June 2013. A train has just departed for Bishop Auckland, with another about to leave for Darlington. Meanwhile a small queue of pedestrians and a large queue of road traffic has built up at the level crossing. Heighington was busy during WWII, sharing with Aycliffe the flow of thousands of workers to the nearby ROD munitions factories. Now enjoying a new lease of life thanks to the expanding industrial estates of what became Newton Aycliffe. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 19/06/2013]](/images/43000/43489.jpg "Heighington")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> at Shildon on 18 February 2014. <br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46428.jpg "Shildon")
![Star turn. <I>Mallard</I> amongst the exhibits in the yard at Shildon on 18 February 2014.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46444.jpg "Shildon")
![A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> providing brakevan rides for visitors to the NRM site at Shildon on 22 February, while her sister locomotives look on.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46425.jpg "Shildon")
![A4 60008 <I>Dwight D Eisenhower</I> on display in the yard at NRM Shildon on 22 February as part of <I>The Great Goodbye</I>.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46435.jpg "Shildon")
![Surviving accomodation bridge on the west side of the S & D Brusselton Incline between Shildon and West Auckland, built 1825. The listed bridge has been damaged by masonry removal but is now in the care of the Brusselton Incline Group. Trees and shrubs have been removed from the embankment between the bridge and Brusselton incline top, exposing a number of the original stone block sleepers.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 03/05/2014]](/images/47000/47698.jpg "Brusselton Incline")
![A very shiny Stirling Single, GNR No. 1 at Locomotion, Shildon, on 3rd May 2014.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 03/05/2014]](/images/47000/47704.jpg "Shildon")
![The North Eastern Railway Association May walk 'rolls' into West Auckland MPD on May 3rd 2014, part way through a Shildon, Brusselton, West Auckland, South Church, Black Boy, Shildon ramble. The landscape has changed radically here since closure in the 60s. Only a surviving Gas Holder in the vicinity allows tie in to old maps. Sadly c 55 years too late to hear the roar of three BR standard moguls on a west bound coke train, heading for Stainmore Summit.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 03/05/2014]](/images/47000/47716.jpg "West Auckland")
![Leaving Newton Aycliffe for Heighington on 18 March 2015. What is not so obvious nowadays is the trackbed of the line that once ran towards Stockton, which now disappears into the vegetation beyond the GSMR tower.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/03/2015]](/images/50000/50740.jpg "Newton Aycliffe")
![A Bishop Auckland to Saltburn train calls at Newton Aycliffe on 18 March 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/03/2015]](/images/50000/50816.jpg "Newton Aycliffe")
![Looking north over the level crossing at Heighington on 18 March 2015. This station is on the route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and opened for passengers on the same day that line was opened in September 1825. The building on the right is named 'The Locomotion No.1'.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/03/2015]](/images/50000/50898.jpg "Heighington")
![Looking south over the level crossing at Heighington towards Darlington on 18 March 2015. A new REB has appeared on the right next to the signalbox and new LED signals protect the crossing.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/03/2015]](/images/50000/50912.jpg "Heighington")
![A view west up the approach to Evenwood station on 19 March 2015. The tarmac road would appear to have been added after the line closed in 1962 in order to provide easier access to the platform area.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/03/2015]](/images/50000/50829.jpg "Evenwood (2nd)")
![Hitachi Rail Europe celebrates the first Intercity Express (IEP) train to be built in the UK at its manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.<br><br>
Courtesy Hitachi Rail Europe.<br><br>[Hitachi Rail Europe 09/12/2016]](/images/57000/57408.jpg "Newton Aycliffe")
![The epitome of <I>Parliamentary services</I>, this is Teesside Airport station, which only has one train calling in each direction per week. Opened in 1971 it once had an hourly service but is some distance from the airport terminal and was little used. In 2016 only 98 passenger journeys were recorded and that was considerably more than many previous years. This view taken from the A67 but the station cannot be accessed from this road.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2017]](/images/59000/59913.jpg "Teesside Airport")
![Northern Pacer 142094, working from Saltburn to Bishop Auckland, runs through Teesside Airport (without stopping of course) on 24th June. In 2017 the only trains scheduled to call are the (Sundays only) 1116 to Hartlepool and the 1236 to Darlington. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2017]](/images/60000/60126.jpg "Teesside Airport")
![It may be a railway museum, but from this angle, it has a management training centre look about it.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60422.jpg "Darlington North Road")
![This junction North of North Road station was the first access (geographically) to the Stainmore line on leaving Darlington. Our exploration, from a strategically parked car, went: cold (tarmac footpath) to warm (earth with wooden sleepers) to BINGO! Rails under the fence! View looks South East.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 05/08/2017]](/images/60000/60565.jpg "Hopetown Junction")
![The 12.25 Bishop Auckland to Saltburn departs from Shildon on 8 February 2018, with the 'Locomotion' out-base of the National Railway Museum in the distant right.<br><br>[David Spaven 08/02/2018]](/images/62000/62999.jpg "Shildon")
![The station site at West Auckland, looking south west on the line towards Barnard Castle in April 2018. Apparently there were two platforms here, but they both faced the same direction, a curious arrangement. The line closed in 1962 and only Station House survives. [Ref query 10 April 2018]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/04/2018]](/images/63000/63555.jpg "West Auckland")
