Steam Collection (page 7)

Russell Snowball, aged 61, of Fenham at North Shields to see the unloading of a Danish locomotive on 20th December 1979

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

Guard Richard Graham at South Tynedale Railway on 26th May 1984

The Inwell, a 1937 Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive, gets in some practice on 28th March 1983

Steam engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley at Newcastle Station on 12th June 1972

Steam engine No. 4498 the Sir Nigel Gresley at Carlisle Station on 6th October, 1973

Bill Harrison and wife Jeanne on the first all day service by Tanfield Railway from a new station at Sunniside, Gateshead to Marley Hill Colliery on 14th July 1982

A Coffee Pot Loco and the Lewin Locomotive (right) two of the steam engines which can be seen at the Steam Day at Beamish Hall on 10th September 1981

Locomotive No. 21 steamed into spring at the Tanfield Railway, near Stanley, after its winter overhaul on 20th May 1986. Boiler inspector Edward McPhee gives the all-clear for the engines busy season

Mr. Bill Armstrong of Whickham with shunting engine No. 13 at Dunston Power Station on 6th
Mr. Bill Armstrong of Whickham with shunting engine No.13 at Dunston Power Station on 6th May 1972

The Pallion locomotive which has been in service since 1902 at the Doxford and Sunderland Shipbuilding and Enginerring company on 14th January 1971

Lib - The departure of the 1926 Lord Nelson class steam engine from Newcastle Central Station, which had more than 170 North East licensees on the Pullman coaches behind on 23th July 1985

This little 040 tank engine has arrived to double the steam power at the Bowes Railway depot at Springlwell on 7th May 1981

Thee little ones study steam locomotives at the Tanfield Railway engine sheds which were open to the public on 18th April 1995, the Easter Bank Holiday

The Wellington steam engine on 5th March 1991

Former Midland Duchess of Hamilton during a special working in 1980 to commemorate 150 years of Railway Mail Trains on 20th January 1980

The Jubilee class Leander on 31st August, 1975

The historical locomotive "City of Truro"was on show to the public at
The historical locomotive " City of Truro" was on show to the public at the Western Region Depot. The City of Truro reached a record speed of 102.3 miles an hour when hauling an Oceans

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

Sixty five year old Eddie Dyke, of Sunderland who is chairman of the South Tynedale Railway Society at Alston with his teddy

Visiting steam locomotive No. 2005 leaving Newcastle Central Station on 13th June 1987

The Royal Scott steam train on 29th June 1959

The new British Railways express, The Caledonian pulls out of Carlisle Station on 17th June 1957

The City of Wells steam locomotive opens the new travel interchange at Gateshead railway station on 3 August 1987

The former Midland Duchess of Hamilton on 1st October 1981

Donald Mackinlay of distillers Charles Mackinlay toasts the departure of the 1926 Lord Nelson class steam engine which had more than 170 North East licensees on the Pullman coaches behind on 23th

Locomotive No. 21 steamed into spring at the Tanfield Railway, near Stanley, after its winter overhaul. Boiler inspector Edward McPhee gives the all clear for the engines busy season to come

The ex-Great Western Railways locomotive King George V drew a big crowd in London on 4th October 1971. She was pulling a trin holding an exhibition of products of her present owners

Steam locomotive 44767 George Stephenson leaves Newcastle over the Kinge George Bridge for its trip to Manchester on 18th March 1995

Locomotive number 92220 the Evening Star in action on 11th March 1985 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first section of railway brom Blaydon to Hexham

A steam train making its way through the countryside on Tanfield Railway on 3rd April 1988

The Sir Nigel Gresley at Newcastle Central Station on 29th April 1995

Work on the new marshalling yards on 16th March 1960, which when completed will be the most modern yards in Europe has now reached the " machine age" when machines take over from the men

Lib - Engineer John Maughan gives some idea of the size on one of the exhibits at the Stephenson Railway Museum on 14th June 1994 while sitting on Engine No.2509 the Silverlink A4 Pacific locomotive

Members of the 3rd Washington (Donwell) Scouts were at Bowes Railway Museum on 27th March 1991 cleaning up brake vans as part of the Scout Job Week

The Causey Rambler steaming along Tanfield Railway on 4th September 1994

A general picture of a steam locomotive getting some attention from its engineer and driver on 15th April 1995

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

Ian Storey inside Engine No. 44767 the George Stephenson on 2nd November 1994
Ian Storey inside Engine No.44767 the George Stephenson on 2nd November 1994, a Black Five locomotion which Ian has lovingly restored

25th Anniversary of the Gateshead MetroCentre - first shops started trading 23 April 1986, official opening 13 October 1986 - The City of Wells steam locomotive opens the new travel interchange

The Flying Scotsman on 12th May 1977 on tis way to Carnforth Rail Museum

A locomotive built in Gateshead in 1874 known as the Bauxite No.2 in its temporary shed at Killingworth waiting for a new home on 2nd November 1950

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

In a flurry of steam, engine 43129 pulls the six car train, with 300 members of the Stephenson Locomotive Society and the Railway Travel and Correspondence Society aboard, on 11th November 1963

A picture of Heaton Railway Depot on 13th June 1953

The Talisman Express on 17th September 1956

Breaking ground on 26th July 1954 was the British Railways new excursion train, Northern Venturer, when it left Newcastle Central Station for Morecambe on the first leg on its four-journey schedule

An Air Express, the Imperial Airways latest machine, flying over another express - the Flying Scotsman at Welwyn (Herts) on 13th February 1934

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