Public Transport Collection (page 8)

The 8. 50 a. m. Newcastle to Kings Cross Inter-City 125 train passes over the King Edward
The 8.50 a.m. Newcastle to Kings Cross Inter-City 125 train passes over the King Edward Bridge, on 6th July 1982

An Inter-City 125 leaving Newcastle Central Station on 3rd July 1982

Mr. Alan Craig achieved every railmans dream on 18th March 1976 when he spent 40 minutes at the controls of an Inter-City 125, British Rails new High Speed Train

Locomotive 41001, British Rails High Speed Train at Newcastle Central Station on 19th July 1973. It is capable with its twin Locomotive 41002 of travelling from Newcastle to London in three hours at

British Rails new High Speed Train about to leave Kings Cross, London on 2nd August, 1973 for a demonstration run to Darlington

The Inter-City 125 from Kings Cross to Edinburgh has just left Newcastle Central Station on 20th March 1978

Whitley Bay train driver Wally Hobson with the Laurel Wreath Plaque to mark 154 miles per hour record run by the Inter-City 225 locomotive Sir Henry Royce on 30th June 1995

The Inter-City 225 on the East Coast Main Line on 29th July 1998

The Inter-City 125 standing at the Central Station, Newcastle on 1st July 1995

A general view of an Inter-City 225 at Newcastle Central Station on 20th November 1997

An Inter-City 125 coming into Newcastle Central Station on 1st July 1995

Bosses from British Rail set out to show the super-efficient Japanese that the North East does not lag behind in the field of high speed travel

Manager Peter Edwards in the Inter-City 125 shed on 18th August 1984

The Inter-City 125 High Speed train at York Station on 8th September 1977

Two Inter-City 225 trains parked up in the Central Station, Newcastle on 15th June 1994, the morning of the signalmans strike

Train drivers Bic Bryant and Norman Boyd (right), with station manager Neil Clarke at Newcastle Central Staton on 17th March 1982

The interior of the Inter-City 125 High Speed train on 8th March 1989. The luggange area and case racks in a D coach

Some of the Inter-City 125 High Speed trains standing in the snow at Heaton Depot on 13th January, 1982

The new High Speed Train servicing depot was opened at Heaton on 7th November 1977 when one of the new locomotives broke through a giant tape driven by rail boss Peter Parker

An Inter-City 125 on the King Edward Bridge on its way to Kings Cross, London on 30th September 1985

British Rail driver Colin Forster accelerates up to 125 m. p. h
British Rail driver Colin Forster accelerates up to 125 m.p.h. down the East coast main line in the Inter-City 125 on 21st May 1986

Inter-City 125 High Speed train driver George Goodair shows our Fix It kids the controls at Newcastle Central Station on 10th August 1978

The Inter-City 225 leaving Newcastle Central Station on 29th July 1998

The Inter-City 225 at Newcastle Central Station on 20th Mfarch 1997

A Virgin 125 train leaving Newcastle Central Station on 11th November 1998

Some Inter-City 225s and 125s standing at Heaton Depot on 29th July 1998

A Kings Cross Inter-City 125 pulling into Newcastle Central Station on the King Edward Bridge crossing the River Tyne on 13th August, 1984

The Inter-City 225 standing at Newcastle Central Station on 29th July 1998

An engineer taking a break from working on this old steam locomotive on 21st August 1972

LNER Engine No. 4771 making its way past the crowds on the Shildon to Darlington line at the 150 anniversary celebrations on 31st August 1975

A steam train rolling on the private line of Tanfield Railway on 23rd March 1984

Mike Forrester on a ACC5 Pecket engine built in 1939 called Ashington No.5 on 24th March 1994

One of the steam locomotives at Tanfield Railway near Stanley, County Durham doing one of its summer runs on 20th June 1993

The Sir Cecil A. Cochrane, one of the engines at Tanfield Railway on 31st August 1981

LNER Engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley, and a Stirling steam locomotive making their way past the crowds on the Shildon to Darlington line at the 150 anniversary celebrations on 31st August 1975

Alison Ashby, nine, and fellow pupils from Marley Hill School are helping to clean up Sunniside Station and some of the line which is part of Tanfield Railway on 5th October 1986

Sara Brooks, Alison Brooks and Ann Tuck are helping out at an open day at Tanfield Railway on 7th April 1980

Restoration engineer Grodon Stark, on the flat bed is helping to move an anciet wagon at the Stephenson Rail Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 5th February 1998

Engine No. 60163 Tornado Peppercorn Class Al Pacific steam locomotive which was build in 1990 by a group of enthusiasts on 27th September 1997

A new steam age got under way in the North East as the inaguarel train broke a small tape to open the Bowes Railway Museum on 12th April 1981

Alan Hogg, aged 13, from Heaton, cleans up the sir Cecil A. cochrane engine before the visitors arrive at Gatesheads own preserved railway on 7th April 1980

Martin Smith from Tanfield Railway Museum with the brightly coloured 0-6-0 industrial locomotive used to shunt cement wagons along a branch line into the depot of Castle Cement (Ribblesdale) Ltd

Peter Weightman of Jesmond at the controls of an 0-4-0 engine, built in the 1880s, at the Marley Hill Steam Centre, which held an open day on 14th April 1974

Lou Avis of Siemens Electronics takes a look at the 1909 Siemens engine being restored at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 18th January 1996

Restoration engineer Grodon Stark is helping to move an anciet wagon at the Stephenson Rail Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 5th February 1998

Peter Wakeman and Mel Deighton who restored the Victorian railway carriage at Tanfield Railway on 30th January 1994

Paul Grounsell senior museum attendant finishes the nameplates for the restored locomotive Jackie Milburn which bell be named today at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink

Les Ferguson from the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields, with their lates aquisition Engine No.1313 a Swedish B Class 4-6-0 tender engine on 7th July 1995

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