Express from Newcastle entering Middlesbrough
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Express from Newcastle entering Middlesbrough
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 28 Mar 1955
View west, towards Thornaby, then North, West and South: ex-NER lines. The 08.15 from Newcastle will have come via Sunderland, West Hartlepool and Stockton - a regular hourly service, usually worked by these Gresley 2-6-2Ts, this one being V3 No. 67688 (built 2/40 as No. 396, No. 7688 from 1946, withdrawn 12/62).
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Image Location
Latitude
54.57945
Longitude
-1.235391