A long while later and the platform has gone, the car park has arrived and a special makes its way from Redcar towards Black Bridge. It must be a preserved locomotive on a charter run!
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.
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 How many of you remember the excursion platform at Redcar? Well, there’s a car park there now; but in its heyday it was heaving. Redcar had a beach then; there was no deep water channel in the Tees, no Blast Furnace on the skyline and Redcar had two picture houses and a theatre! It must have been a busy day as I can count three engines in steam here as well! Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.  I couldn’t resist posting this image! David tells me that it’s Castleton Station, but when was a Class 55 ”Deltic” on the Whitby line, I know that there used to be one at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway? Russ Piggot says ”Without sounding too trainspotterish, it was 55002 on a special to Whitby in summer 1981. I remember seeing it go through Great Ayton”. Craig Oliphant tells us: ”55002 did two Merrymakers from Newcastle to Whitby on 02/08/1981 via Durham, Ferryhill, Stockton, and the second one on the 30/08/1981 via Sunderland, both I believe had what are now termed Mini Tours from Whitby to Middlesbrough and return during the day.” Thanks David Richardson, Russ Piggot and Craig Oliphant for the updates.  Back row: Mary Tyreman, ??, Elsie Trillo, ? Cush, Mary Trillo, ? Cush, Alice Hogan. Can you help us with the missing names from this motley crew, the date and the name of the production?  Back row: John Grandin, Keith Nellist, John Nellist, ?? , Kevin Hayes, Jimmy Hughes, Tony Sanderson, John Garbutt, Ronny Pass, David Dunn, Ray Marshall, Miss Walker (Teacher). Third row: Gordon Wren, Malcolm Unthank, Jimmy Yarker, Ann Harrison, Mary Devereux, Jean Welford, Pauline Marshall, Ann Walshaw, Margaret Smith, Sheila Curnow, ? Dempsey? , Colin Murphy, Frank Brierley. Second row: Catherine Devereux, Barbara White, Pam Crooks, Ann Templeman, Dorothy Nicholson, Christine Southgate, Marion Sanderson, Mary Welford, Val Bowman, Sandra Lord, Kathleen Woodhouse, Pauline Biott. Front row: Ray Brown, John Pearson, ?? , Paul Kelly, Charles Calvert, Colin Hines. Pictured at the School on the Deepdale site. Can anybody help with the missing names? Image and names to date courtesy of Sandra E Hutchinson.  Here’s a few railway pictures to keep the trainspotters happy an EWS (English Welsh & Scottish – railway freight company) Class 56 no. 56032 standing at Boulby.  I think this is the same train looking towards the dispersal sidings at the filling bay.  Class 56 no. 56055 outbound from Boulby with a train of Potash Hoppers. As Russ says, it’s in the LoadHaul livery! Didn’t know they were all American owned now though – is nothing British anymore!  EWS Class 56 no. 56032 looking rather clean in this classic shot at Boulby Potash Mine.  A view of the wagon filler with a train of wagons in the background, this hopper fills the rail wagons with Potash. |
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