Trains passing Alliance Street & Templar Street c.1978 – These photographs were taken on a Sunday when main line trains were diverted past Stockton to allow engineering work to be carried out between Northallerton and Newcastle. The Deltic is 55022 Royal Scots Grey.
Photographs and details courtesy of MF Wilson.
Somewhere, I have a tape-recording of an ‘A4’ Pacific (a “diversion” off the ECML would have been in force that day) made leaving Stockton station, heading southbound one Sunday on a VERY murky November afternoon in 1965… My tape was made just across the road from the southbound platform – at the same level. The “chime” whistles (likely from 60004) sound fan-tas-tic, with even a bit of doppler…
Spring Street bridge in the background of the middle two photos. I used to train spot from there because it was at the end of my road (Sydenham).
Photo’s 1 and 6 were taken from Spring Street Bridge.