A view of a steam train leaving Stockton Station with the Queens Hotel in the background, possibly c1950’s. 
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A view of a steam train leaving Stockton Station with the Queens Hotel in the background, possibly c1950’s.
There was another goods yard Keith which got a load of livestock (cattle & sheep) in Station Street(near where the roundabout at St Marys Church, Norton Road) & they were drove through the streets to the slaughter house you mention.
On the other side of the tracks can be seen the goods yard where the cattle and sheep were dropped off for their journey down Stamp Street into Dixon Street and on to the slaughter house in California Street.
I remember the slaughterhouse near Mill Lane school. Did it become caterfreeze?
If you are interested in photographs of closed and disused stations there is an excellent web site.
Stations at Sexhow and Picton are illustrated with a good photograph of the crossing at Trenholme Bar where the line crossed the A19. Search for ‘disused-stations.org’
This scene could show the last passenger service to Whitby from Stockton via Picton and Battersby. This line closed to passengers in 1954. Thereafter the service through the Esk valley was through Middlesbrough and Battersby Junction, as it is now. You could also go to Whitby (West Cliff)via Guisborough and the coast until May 1958. These engines were regular performers on the Whiby services, together with the similar looking Gresley L1 tanks and A8’s. Smaller G5 tanks were also regulars on this route. At one time Stocton to Whitby via Picton was the main route, with the Middlesbrough to Whitby, via a reversal at Battersby, the secondary option. This line closed completely when the Battersby to Stokesly section closed in 1965.
Note what seems to be a vegetable patch behind the fence. Rationing was still in full flow at this time. Britain was the last European country to get rid of it when rationing was phased out in about 1952-53