I agree with David, a Worsdell Q5 or to give it’s North Eastern Railway classification T/T1 – I have the worksplate from sister engine 1732 on my desk, I’ve been searching for years for a photo of 1732 without success – 1731 is probably as close as I’ll get!! The photo of 1731 is probably local, as David states 1731 was renumbered to 3283 & my records show that it did survive into BR days as 3283 & was shedded at 51D Middlesbrough when withdrawn in December 1950 – so I would guess at the shot being taken in the Middlesbrough/Newport/Stockton area prior to 1948.
Some of the Q5 class served in France during the First World War & these locos were identified by a badge of a flaming grenade over a set of stripes which was fixed to the sandbox on the loco running plate.
None of the Q5’s were preserved, however Q6 63395 which works on the North York Moors railway is coupled to a Q5 tender, the same type that can be seen behind the cab in the photo of 1731.
The locomotive could indeed be a Gresley k2, beteen 1946 and shortly after nationalization, before the prefix 6 was added. However the sphere of operation of the k2 class was further south in the Lincoln/Nottingham/ex Great Central lines, and would be unlikely to be in the Teesside area. The loco is a Wilson Worsdell designed Q5 No 1731 built in 1903 and withdrawn in 1950. It became LNER 3283, and would have become 63283, but was scrapped before it recieved its BR number. This photograph must be prior to the 1946 renumbering scheme. For this loco that was December 1946.
I think this is a picture of the Salt Work”s at Haveton Hill, when you went under the Bridge on the way to the Transporter,y ou turned right just before the Bridge and went down the track there leading to the Salt Works. My brother-in-law worked there, his name was, Ray Duckers, fantastic chap, loved wildfowling on the Seaton Marshes, and could fish in all weather”s used to have an old Enfield motorbike and sidecar, remember one December”s night him coming home , like a snowman coverd head to foot in snow, and actually fell off the bike to open the sidecar door to take out a huge bag, of really freshly cought cod, can taste it now.
I agree with David, a Worsdell Q5 or to give it’s North Eastern Railway classification T/T1 – I have the worksplate from sister engine 1732 on my desk, I’ve been searching for years for a photo of 1732 without success – 1731 is probably as close as I’ll get!! The photo of 1731 is probably local, as David states 1731 was renumbered to 3283 & my records show that it did survive into BR days as 3283 & was shedded at 51D Middlesbrough when withdrawn in December 1950 – so I would guess at the shot being taken in the Middlesbrough/Newport/Stockton area prior to 1948.
Some of the Q5 class served in France during the First World War & these locos were identified by a badge of a flaming grenade over a set of stripes which was fixed to the sandbox on the loco running plate.
None of the Q5’s were preserved, however Q6 63395 which works on the North York Moors railway is coupled to a Q5 tender, the same type that can be seen behind the cab in the photo of 1731.
The locomotive could indeed be a Gresley k2, beteen 1946 and shortly after nationalization, before the prefix 6 was added. However the sphere of operation of the k2 class was further south in the Lincoln/Nottingham/ex Great Central lines, and would be unlikely to be in the Teesside area. The loco is a Wilson Worsdell designed Q5 No 1731 built in 1903 and withdrawn in 1950. It became LNER 3283, and would have become 63283, but was scrapped before it recieved its BR number. This photograph must be prior to the 1946 renumbering scheme. For this loco that was December 1946.
I think this is a picture of the Salt Work”s at Haveton Hill, when you went under the Bridge on the way to the Transporter,y ou turned right just before the Bridge and went down the track there leading to the Salt Works. My brother-in-law worked there, his name was, Ray Duckers, fantastic chap, loved wildfowling on the Seaton Marshes, and could fish in all weather”s used to have an old Enfield motorbike and sidecar, remember one December”s night him coming home , like a snowman coverd head to foot in snow, and actually fell off the bike to open the sidecar door to take out a huge bag, of really freshly cought cod, can taste it now.
DONT KNOW WHERE IT IS BUT OBVIOUSLY BETWEEN STOCKTON AND PORTRACK AND OBVIOUSLY COLLECTING SALT! MUST OF BEEN A COLD WINTER!