Around a month old, Beyer Peacock-built D8591 poses at 51L on 8 August 1964. It was scrapped in December 1968, such a waste, although arguably the class should not have been built in the first place. Scanned from a 6x9cm size negative taken by the late Brian Webb, copyright of the Industrial Railway Sicierty (BW-1240)
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An increasingly common sight at locomotive sheds around the UK in the early '60s were lines of withdrawn locos with their chimneys bagged. Their is some debate ongoing as to why this practice took place, one suggestion being that the locos might only be mothballed awaiting a return to service (which rarely happened). Another suggestion that is largely discredited is that it had something to do with suspending boiler insurance. Whatever the reason, here is the melancholy vista of a line of stored Raven Q6 0-8-0s at Thornaby MPD headed up by 63430. Records suggest that this loco was withdrawn on 30.4.63 and disposed of on 31.5.63. The Norman Hirst Collection. Copyright ©2018 by Keith Lewcock. Not to be used or reproduced without my prior permission.
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Princess Margaret at RAF Thornaby
The Five lamps and an ordinary street lamp, included in a view of Mandale Road, Thornaby, looking towards the Sadlers Hotel. The Five Lamps were presented to Thornaby by three Justices of the Peace in 1874. the original gas lamps were replaced by an electric five lamp standard during the 1950,s. In 1983, a replica…
A rather colourful view of Westbury Street, Thornaby - taken in 1988.
This photograph taken in March 1978 shows the Grade II Listed building of Thornaby Town Hall on Mandale Road.
This is one of those posts that was lost when we moved to the new site. This photograph shows the River Tees with a wonderful view of the houses on Thornaby Place, the Bridge Hotel and the Cleveland (Clevo) Flour Mill. Courtesy of Norman Banks. We have tried to recreate as many of the original…
BR Sulzer Type 2 D5156 at Thornaby shed, on a grey day in August 1961. The loco had entered service in June, and later became Class 25 25006. It was withdrawn at the end of 1980, and scrapped in May 1983. No less than 20 examples have been preserved.. Thornaby shed finally closed in 2009, and the remaining buildings were demolished in 2011, and the site is now cleared. Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed fungus-marked magenta-colour-shifted original.. Original slide - photographer unknown See - approximately - where this photo was taken
A crowd of approximately 60.000 attended this display
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1956 Air Ministry letter regarding the development of the airfield, the RAF had envisaged that Thornaby would still be in use into the 1970's.
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Inspecting the airmen. Photograph courtesy of J M Alexander
Thornaby Aerodrome c1934 looking east with Stainsby Grange Farm top centre and Thornaby Village in the foreground. A few of 608 Squadrons Westland Wapiti's can also be seen.
