Unusual activity at Consett engine shed
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Unusual activity at Consett engine shed
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 14 Apr 1965
My recollection is that the problem was that the tender brakes had seized, and a team of men was trying to free them. The loco is Q6 0-8-0 63394, built around 1913 by the North Eastern Railway. The locomotive shed is hidden behind the locomotive. The landscape today is rather different! https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4976021 . Only the availability of old OS maps on the internet makes it possible to locate a view like this accurately.
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Image Location
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54.843011
Longitude
-1.849548