Sheds Collection

Houses in Stockley Park affected by flies on rubbish brought from London and tipped into the disused clay pits. Londoners would load barges on the canal and come to tip the industrial

B. E. A import sheds at Heathrow Airport. 8th October 1968
B.E.A import sheds at Heathrow Airport. 8th October 1968

A snowplough waiting to be attached to an engine in the sheds on 9th September 1972

A British Rail Diesel train leaving the Gosforth sheds on 8th September 1955

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

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

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

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

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

Supervisor Hughie Rowlands aboard the restored LNER Peppercorn A2 classs No. 60532 Blue Peter at thornaby Stockyard on 22nd February 1992

Engines running on Tanfield Railway on 14th April 1974

Engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley being spruced up in the sheds at Thornaby for
Engine No.4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley being spruced up in the sheds at Thornaby for the Teeside Rail Exhibition on 9th September 1972

Engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley all stoked up and ready to go on 20th July 1975 with her proud restoration crew

Belching smoke and steam Engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley emerges from the enigne shed in Philadelphia, County Durham on 20th July 1975

Steam trains leaving the sheds at Tanfield Railway on 3rd April, 1988

Some of the last remaining steam trains of British Rail stand outside Kingsmoor Locomotive Sheds, Carlisle on 1st September 1867, themselves soon to be closed

A picture of Heaton Railway Depot on 13th June 1953

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