Images of the locomotives and rolling stock used on Hartlepool's railways.
'C' Jetty Union Dock looking across towards Gray's shipyar buildings. Queens Rink Ballroom on right. Rolling stock with pit props in the foreground.
More detail »A steam engine and driver on the docks with a crane unloading timber in the background.
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More detail »An A3 Locomotive passes the Church Street Signal Box, with the Railway Canteen building (on the right), and one of the large dockside warehouses in the background left.
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The 10.30am train travelling between Newcastle and Middlesbrough on the 05/06/1960.
The first day of the buffet car service .
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Steam locomotive 67677 pulls into Seaton Carew Station. Built in 1939, the engine was withdrawn from service and scrapped in 1962.
More detail »Locomotives 69873 and an A3-class, double-headed pulling passenger coaches at Hart Station.
More detail »The Flying Scotsman, leaving West Hartlepool Station on the 31st August 1969.
The last steam tour before leaving for the USA trip.
More detail »The A3 locomotive "Flying Scotsman" photographed on September 10th, 1967. She was the last locomotive to be watered and bunkered in West Hartlepool Sheds before they closed.
More detail »Steam locomotive 60524, 'Herringbone', waits at Hart Station. The engine was built in 1947, being withdrawn from service and scrapped in 1965.
More detail »A British Rail DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit), on the Hartlepool to Stockton service in 1975.
More detail »J73 Class steam locomotives were first introduced in 1886. This photograph is believed to have been taken at Union Dock, although no date is given.
More detail »The Last Train to leave Hartlepool Fish Quay, August 1963. Engine Driver, Mr. William Charles Heywood and Hartlepool Fish Quay Agent, Mr. John Lancaster. The train left at noon.
More detail »A local diesel train (DMU) leaving Hartlepool for Stockton in 1975.
More detail »Saddle tank shunting locomotive 0-4-0 with the ship King David moored in the background.
More detail »Ex-LMS locomotive 45312 on an excursion run at Newburn, date unknown.
More detail »Locomotive 45442 hauling passenger coaches at West Hartlepool Station, dat unknown.
More detail »Locomotive 60154 hauling passenger coaches at Hart Station.
More detail »Locomotive 62359 hauling passenger coaches leving Seaton Carew Station.
More detail »Locomotive 62380 hauling passenger coaches out of West Hartlepool Station.
More detail »Locomotive 67691 passing the Railway Canteen on the right.
More detail »Site of Locomotive Depot, 51c, West Hartlepool,from Newburn Bridge, 1995.
More detail »Locomotive 63454 at the water tower in Mainsforth Terrace taken in the mid 1950s.
More detail »A steam locomotive hauls coal wagons past the Newburn Bridge Signal Box in June 1966, with the locomotive shed in the background.
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West Hartlepool on a Ore Train, passing Swainson Dock.
December 17th 1960
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The Q6 locomotive 63407 hauling coal wagons at the Cemetery North Junction.
More detail »A Q6 locomotive hauling empty coal wagons at Hart Station, possibly in the 1950s.
More detail »Steam locomotive 43071 about to pick up a large number of passengers at Seaton Carew Station. This engine was built in 1950, being withdrawn and scrapped in 1967.
More detail »Shunter 68711, Glass J72, Church Street, West Hartlepool, December 17th 1960.
More detail »Steam locomotive 60126, 'Sir Vincent Raven' hauling a long string of passenger coaches at West Hartlepool Station. This engine entered service with LNER in 1949, being re-painted in British Rail colours in 1950. It was withdrawn from service in 1965 and scrapped.
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More detail »Class A8, 39860, West Hartlepool, 7th June 1960. The day before it was withdrawn.
More detail »Tank Engine 68703 on the docks. It appears that the loco has derailed and that the workers are about to re-rail it. On the extreme right is part of the rail mounted breakdown crane and a spreader bar has been attached under the rear buffers of the engine to lift the rear of the engine back onto the track.
More detail »Steam locomotive 60833 hauling passenger carriages at Newburn Bridge.
More detail »West Hartlepool Shed, 68410, Class J77, March 1960.
More detail »D252, 1.1p.m. at Powlett Road, July 1961.
More detail »St. Gatien 60073, 10th July 1960, North of West Hartlepool.
More detail »Colchester Train 60081, 8th July 1960, West Hartlepool.
More detail »Steam Locomotive train, A3, 60084, TRIGO, 11, 23rd August 1961.
More detail »Steam Locomotive, 60833, Bottom of Church Street.
More detail »Steam Locomotive Train, 61032, Stembok at the bottom of Church Street.
More detail »Steam Locomotive Train, J72, 68711, West Hartlepool Shed, 1960.
More detail »Steam Trains taken by Harry Henderson with accompanying information.
More detail »A photo taken from the bus station with the docks cranes and the William Gray shipbuilding offices in the background. The engine is Q6 no. 63407 and it appears to be running light engine back to the sheds on Mainsforth Terrace, while the diesel is a Multiple Unit in the bay at the west end of the station. This view is now completely different with the new overpass to Jackson's Landing having been built.
More detail »Steam engine class J72 0-6-T No. 69022 at West Hartlepool Station on 3 September 1962
More detail »Steam Locomotive Train D251, West Hartlepool, 23rd August 1961.
More detail »Steam locomotive watering tower on the docks. Wagons containg pit props behind. Note the gas lamp. The Queens Rink Ballroom can just be made out on the left.
More detail »Steam locomotive 67691 leaving West Hartlepool Station with a string of passenger coaches. This VE-type locomotive was built in 1940, being withdrawn from service in late 1964 and scrapped in early 1965. It ran almost exclusively on the Newcastle to Middlesbrough run.
More detail »Class Q6 0-8-0 heads a mineral train through West Hartlepool station on 3 September 1962. The train is carrying limestone from Coxhoe Quarry to Steetley
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A small shunting engine at the South Durham Steel Works in 1946.
More detail »Railway wagons at the Steetley Magnesite Works.
More detail »A L.N.E.R. rail-mounted fire pump and its fire-fighting crew, c.1920. Do you know any of these men?
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More detail »Unloading pit props straight in to rolling stock. a steam train in the picture.
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More detail »Pit props being unloaded into rolling stock at Hartlepool docks.
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