This photograph shows a J27 locomotive hauling a freight train as it passes through Billingham Station on 22nd April 1965. Courtesy of David P Williams.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This photograph shows a J27 locomotive hauling a freight train as it passes through Billingham Station on 22nd April 1965. Courtesy of David P Williams.
The loco is an ex NER Class J27 which at the time was allocated to Sunderland south dock shed and was used to haul coal trains from the collieries on the Durham coast around Seaham to the sidings at South Bank for use in the steel industry.