Date: 13/05/2011

'Why is it that Stockton has not made more of its railway heritage?' This is a question that has often been asked in the pages of the Evening Gazette and with good reason. It seems that when it comes to railway history Stockton has never fully embraced its unique place in the evolution of this form of transport.

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Class 37 No. 6755 brings a colliery trip working south through Stockton station, heading towards Tees Yard, late in the afternoon of 2nd October 1970.
Location: Stockton
Company: Leeds Northern Railway
02/10/1970 Bill Jamieson

Class K1 no 62005 stands at Stockton with the SLS Three Dales Railtour on 20 May 1967.
Location: Stockton
Company: Leeds Northern Railway
20/05/1967 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

A1 Pacific no 60131 Osprey of Copley Hill shed photographed at Stockton in March 1965 with the 6 coaches of the RCTS Tyne-Solway Rail Tour from Leeds City bound for Carlisle via Newcastle and returning to Leeds via the S&C. [The overall roof at Stockton station was removed in 1979.]
Location: Stockton
Company: Leeds Northern Railway
21/03/1965 K A Gray