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The N.E.R engine is a J25 0-6-0 type and numbered 463. I am not sure about this but was told it was around 1910 but hope someone would confirm it. D. A. Twigg has provided more information: “Here are some details about the life of the Locomotive in the photograph. NER 463 built Dec/1899 : Re-numbered for LNER (1946) as 5689. Re- numbered for BR as 65689 , Jan /1949. Locomotive Specifics Designer W. Worsdell : Class J25 : Wheels 0-6-0; Builder Darlington Works : To Service During Dec/1899. Withdrawal week ending Monday 31/05/1954 : Service Life 54 years, 6 months, 1 day. 01/01/1948 Allocation West Auckland (AUK).
01/1949 Renumbered Renumbered to 65689. 31/05/1954 Withdrawn Condemned as 65689. There is no data to show it survived the cutting up of the locomotive.
Image courtesy of Derick Pearson, the Pem Holliday Collection and others, thanks to D. A Twigg for the update on the locomotive.
This is another shot of the accident in an earlier post. This clearly shows how the N.E.R. overcame the problems that accidents caused to its passenger timetable. Drawn up close to the head of the accident (on the Loftus side) is a commuter train. The passengers from a Whitby-bound train can be seen walking along the trackbed, some with small children, to board the commuter train, which will then take them on the rest of their journey. The accident occurred in 1909 and the wagons involved were fairly new. Unusually for mineral wagons they had continuous (air) brakes and were being used on trains between Liverton Mines and Cargo Fleet Works.
Many thanks to Simon Chapman for information.
Derailments were not uncommon on this viaduct, the curve and excess speed brought a few trains to grief! This image gives us a chance to see a good view of a heavy steam crane in action and also the damage caused – bet this took some rectifying!
An N.E.R. 0-4-4T sits across the 4 foot track instead of on it, I can’t quite make out its running number, but it could be 96 – a turn-of-the-century image. The engineering team are on hand, the jib of the lifter can just be seen behind the locomotive. This is one for the rivet-counters out there – what class of locomotive is this? Suggestions of a G5 from Robert McMurray. Eric Johnson told the Archive: “N.E.R. class “O”, no 505. de-railed at Boulby.
Thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
Oops – this looks like a right purler! Now known to be an incident involving NER locomotive no 1294, it ran away on the zig zag and hit the buffers at the bottom end. The Archive’s guess that was correct, believing that the train got away on him and either the guard got his hand-brake on and the locomotive didn’t, or a wagon skipped the track and this was the result. It looks like a train of empties, so I’m surprised that the locomotive couldn’t hold it on the gradient. Looking at the collateral damage, I bet someone lost his job over this!
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