Steam locomotive, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
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Steam locomotive, Bournmoor Junction, 1968
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: Unknown
Numbered NCB 42, this was "built by Robert Stephenson, works number 3801, in 1920 and sadly scrapped in May 1970" http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_christie/6760491975/in/set-72157628852916163/ Here it is working at the Lambton Colliery. The houses in the background are on Briar Lea, Shiney Row. The tiny scrap of light grey building on the horizon on the right, above the right-most gable and to the right of the tree, is the Penshaw Monument http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=39705471 .
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Image Location
Latitude
54.858193
Longitude
-1.507723