Date: 23/09/2011

A LITTLE bit of locomotive history will be made later this month when an old favourite returns to the rails. For the first time in around 70 years one of the streamlined trains that ran on the East Coast main line before the Second World War will return in its original 1930s livery on the North York Moors Railway. [From Richard Buckby]

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Steam favourite returning to the rails

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A LITTLE bit of locomotive history will be made later this month when an old favourite returns to the rails.

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Portrait of A4 Pacific no 60013 Dominion of New Zealand standing at the west end of Gateshead shed in the 1960s. The streamliner would doubtless be diagrammed to take an up ECML service out of Newcastle Central later that day returning home to Kings Cross.
Location: Gateshead MPD
Company: North Eastern Railway
// K A Gray

60019 Bittern with the RCTS Waverley special leaving Hawick on 12 November 1966.
Location: Hawick [2nd]
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
12/11/1966 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)