Date: 26/03/2013

VOLUNTEERS have been sprucing up a piece of the region’s railway heritage, as it prepares for a busy summer season hauling passengers. The last-surviving J72 class locomotive, No. 69023, affectionately known as Joem, has been painstakingly maintained and restored by members of the North-East Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG), in Darlington. Built in Darlington in 1951, Joem featured in a BBC TV version of The Railway Children and has regularly run on heritage railways around the country in recent years.

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'Railway Children' locomotive on track for busy summer in North Yorkshire

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VOLUNTEERS have been sprucing up a piece of the regions railway heritage, as it prepares for a busy summer season hauling passengers.

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Dream on... J72 no 69023 with the 'Flying Scotsman' (headboard!) running into Pickering on 30 June.
Location: Pickering
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
30/06/2011 John Furnevel

The preserved (and much travelled) J72 69023 Joem stands at the buffer stops at Dunnington on the Derwent Valley Light Railway in 1979.
Location: Dunnington
Company: Derwent Valley Light Railway
//1979 Ian Dinmore

J72 0-6-0T no 69023 simmers in the shed yard at Gateshead in October 1962. This locomotive was subsequently preserved. [See image 58748]
Location: Gateshead
Company: North Eastern Railway
20/10/1962 K A Gray