Steam Collection (#12)

Coventry-born pop impressario Pete Waterman has signed up the superstar of the steam era - The Flying Scotsman. The multi-millionaire who launched Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

BPM MEDIA FILER Pete Waterman, pictured with the Flying Scotsman

The make and mend workshop at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields on 22nd June 1991

A fine model of the famous George Stephenson locomotive Rocket, which is now included in the exhibitits at the Industrial Museum, Exhibition Park, Newcastle on 12th July 1935

A replica of the famous George Stephenson Rocket, specially built at Darlington for mr. Ford, the motor magnate, undergoing trials under its own steam on 24th May 1929

The first railway locomotive seen in the North, built by William Hedley, of Wylam, for hauling coal wagons on 1st July 1813 circa

The ovservation car at the rear of the L. and N. E. R. Coronation train
The ovservation car at the rear of the L. and N.E.R. Coronation train, photographed at Newcastle Central Station on 3rd July 1937 when the train arrived from Edinburgh on a trial run

This locomotive Killingworth Billy built by George Stephenson for Killingworth Colliery in 1830 and newly preserved on one of the Newcastle Central Station platforms may be transferred to

Puffing Billy one of Georgen Stephensons first engines on 9th April 1945

Queen Mary 11 March 1948 Clyde steamer with full capacity of 2086 passengers as it goes Doon the Watter from Glasgow leaving Bridge Wharf

Dunoon Pier, July 1957 Clyde Paddle steamer disgorges passengers Doon The Watter

Shakespeare Express pulled into Snow Hill Station, Birmingham to go to Stratford, the first steam train to run the route for 30 years. The engine decoupled and then went to the rear carriages

North shields fish quay in 1910. Sail still outnumbers steam and the horse and cart reign supreme as the latest catch is awaited

A train billowing steam casts a shadow on the first mantle of snow as it travels from Perth northwards to the Forres in Morayshire, Scotland Circa 1950

Kelvin Hall April 1951 Festival Exhibition of Industrial Power showing locomotive built at North British Locomotive Works Springburn Glasgow on dislplay after which it was shipped to Melbourne to

The Golden Arrow London to Paris Express

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