With the signal gantry at Heaton South Junction visible in the right background through the smoke and haze drifting off Heaton shed, Peppercorn A2 Pacific no 60539 Bronzino takes a northbound train away from Newcastle on the ECML aound 1960. A Heaton resident for much of its life the locomotive ended its days at Tweedmouth shed, from where it was eventually withdrawn by BR in November 1962.
Location: Heaton South Junction
Original line: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Photographer: K A Gray
Contact photographer: K A Gray
Date: 1960
Image number: 29598