Signals at Billingham Junction. Note the cinder path on the right, also siding line in the centre of photograph with Dolly Signal which ran down past Pond House c1960s.
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Signals at Billingham Junction. Note the cinder path on the right, also siding line in the centre of photograph with Dolly Signal which ran down past Pond House c1960s.
I remember the siding. For years during the 1950’s and early 60’s, it was full of wagons. One day whilst train spotting, a British railways standard loco 2-6-0 class 2, came and collected all of the wagons, which I think were mostly wooden built. Why I remember this is a mystery, and why the siding was there. I know it ran nearly to the “tin bridge”.
The ”Tin Lizzie” was our favourite train spotting place. I can still remember our dismay when a diesel unit (DMU) replaced the stem engines on the local runs.
That’s right Martin, we called it “tin lizzie”. I remember courting a girl from Devon Crescent in Cowpen,in the early 1960’s. We used to hang around under the bridge. I think I still had my Ian Allen combined volume in my pocket at the time, but didn’t tell her!.