Scene on the embryonic North Tyneside Steam Railway (formerly the old Tyne & Wear Metro test track) at Middle Engine Lane, North Shields, in 1984. In the photograph are the Consett Iron Co's home-made diesel mechanical shunter no.10, Harton Coal Company Siemens electric locomotive E4 (ex-Westoe Colliery) and Consett Iron Co Kitson long-boilered 0-6-0PT, A No 5 of 1883 (undergoing its first steam trials since restoration)
Location: Middle Engine Lane Shed
Original line: Backworth Waggonway
Photographer: Colin Alexander
Contact photographer: Colin Alexander
Date: 1984
Image number: 22696