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I believe the view is from Junction Road rail bridge and the estate is Roseworth. The land the Nuffield Hospital stands on was very swampy. There was a small beck in the fields. Both of these watery problems had to be dealt with before the Glebe housing estate and the Nuffield were built. The sound of ice-cream vans tunes could be heard drifting across these fields from Roseworth over to our last houses in Norton each Sunday. (This information was kindly provided by Sarah Sheraton)
Thats from the Junction Road bridge looking towards Stockton. The houses on the left are roseneath Ave and the house on the extreme edge that is mostly hidden is number 44 where I used to live. We moved in as soon as they were built but the roads werent finished and we had to walk about on planks for a long time before the roads and footpaths went in. On the left would have been the Railway Cottages – owned by BR and occupied by railway employees. They still had earth toilets in the fifties. (This information was kindly provided by Frank Bowron)
I meant the houses on the right of course… ; Our old house – No44 – is the thin edge with the drainpipe. I remember there were often diversions on Sundays when the mainline traffic passed through here and I spotted the Flying Scotsman and Mallard during this time. (This information was kindly provided by Frank Bowron)
This view is from the same bridge as the two of Norton Junction station but now looking south towards Stockton; The present east to South curve comes in from the left in the middle distance and the old East curve came in in the immediate foreground, overgrown with bushes. The Glebe estate and the Nuffield Hospital now occupy the land to the left of the railways and the housing to the right are part of the Ragworth estate. All four pictures look to date from the 50s. Hope this helps! (This information was kindly provided by Andrew Pearson)
There was a signal Box on the right where I used to situate myself during train spotting in the declining years of the steam era. Further down on the left was the Black or Blackie Path which I used as a short cut from Frederick Nattrass school to get to my house in Ragpath Lane (next door to the Doctors Surgery) (This information was kindly provided by Merv James)
There was a signal Box on the right where I used to situate myself during train spotting in the declining years of the steam era. Further down on the left was the Black or Blackie Path which I used as a short cut from Frederick Nattrass school to get to my house in Ragpath Lane (next door to the Doctors Surgery) (This information was kindly provided by Merv James) 
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Pennies and Daggers – Is a penny worth more than a penny when its bigger, and why can”t I have a handle on my dagger? Never any fear of coming into contact with a train because we used to hide. Putting a penny and a six inch nail on the railway track, running and hiding from the eyes of the train driver, just in case he saw the items on the track and blamed you, as if, this got you a rather large penny and the blade of a dagger. The penny was tried in a shop and we couldn’t even get anything for a penny and the dagger still had no handle, putting down another six inch nail with a piece of wood where the handle should be, was a great idea, but didn’t work, only crushed wooden pulp, well you have got to try these things to find out. Roy.
Over the Tracks – On t2190 as far as you can see is a pedestrian crossing over the rail track, just past the houses, off Rochester Road according to Google Maps it is still there and in good use, the other side marries up with Toddington Drive. This crossing we used to use to escape Roseworth Estate on long hot summers days, all that white concrete used to make you hot, hotter than it really was. Once over the track, as far as my little eyes could see were different shades of greenery, depending on what crops were in the ground growing at the time. The view only broken by the distant outline of Norton. It took quite a few years to get to the stage where we ventured into Norton and on to the Castle, but like I said a few years before we got there. The tracks around these fields were well trodden, we never got chased once, must have been allowed to be there, never came to any harm on the tracks or in the fields. The game chicken mustn’t have been invented yet. I don’t think there was a beck over there, the nearest one being Billingham Bottoms, I think, cant check now as they have built over it something called The Glebe. Roy.
Graham Wright – Graham I”ve been away from the area for some thirty years, but have been back a handful of times in that period. Last time I saw a “Streak” in the area was when Sir Nigel Gresley was situated in Stockton station in 1975. It took part in the Rail 150 cavalcade at Shildon. As you say the A4 chime was something else, that plus the smell of hot oil, steam, and the sulphurous tang of the burning coal. It”s enough to bring a tear to the eye!
Oh! yes the excitement of the Sunday diversions and running down to foggy brige in anticipation when you heard the unmistakeable shriek of an A4 Pacicfic”s whistle “A Streak” hoping it would be Willy Whitelaw on a rare trip across the border into England. (Steam train spotters will get my drift.)
The view is taken from the bridge on Junction road (called Foggy or First Bridge by the 1960″s trainspotters from Roseworth – the one nearer Norton was called Seggy or Second Bridge) – the railway is the freight only route between Stockton & Ferryhill, still in use today – I believe it lost its regular passenger service in the early 1950″s, certainly the service had gone by 1959/60. Norton South signal box can just be seen in the right middle distance, it”s still in use today – it dates from the 1870″s & is the oldest surviving signal box on the railway network. Norton east box (behind Harpers) dates from the same time but does not see regular use at present. Norton West box (Blakeston lane crossing) dates from the early 1900″s (1904?) when it replaced a box that was situated on the curve slightly to the south.