The Newcastle to Liverpool train pulls into Stockton Station on a drab January morning in 1966. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Thornton. 
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The Newcastle to Liverpool train pulls into Stockton Station on a drab January morning in 1966. Photograph courtesy of Cliff Thornton.
The buildings on the right were in Lucan Street & belong to the gasworks.
The industrial buildings are the town gasworks. They appear in other photographs of the station area on this site. There is also an aerial shot of the works that is worth seeking out.
What are the Industrial Buildings to the right of the Photograph?? I think that they are too far South to be Hills Doors, also I have not seen these before in any shots of the Station. No wonder the Iron Bridge was built with the ammount of Workers who must have used it everyday.
The locomotive is an English Electric Type 4 of 2000 horsepower. It looks like its in green livery. Later these were classified as Class 40.
Probably the Monday to Saturday 0950 Newcastle-Liverpool(via the coast route), departing Stockton 1100 hours. Times subject to slight variation over the years. Usually about 10 coaches hauled by a North Eastern shedded EE Type 4 as above, or a Peak. For many years its train reporting number/headcode was 1M67. From 1973, 1M67 was routed via Durham and Darlington and not Stockton.
The Newcastle to Liverpool train pulls into Stockton Station on a drab January morning in 1966. The start of a journey for many of us who had to leave the town for one reason or another