A pristine locomotive – another A8, number 69883 – pictured at Battersby Junction in the 1950’s. Battersby Junction is now a station on the Middlesbrough to Whitby, Esk Valley line; it was originally the junction for the line which connected with the Rosedale ironstone mines.
Location identification courtesy of Simon Chapman.
The line also went to the west through Stokesly and Potto and joined the Nortallerto-Stockton line at Picton.
The line also went to the west through Stokesley and Potto and joined the Northallerto-Stockton line at Picton.