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The spire of Newcastle's All Saints Church is visible in the background'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/35/171'><img src='/images/35000/35171.jpg' width='22.915433895685%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42073 seen from the Castle Keep, shortly after leaving Newcastle Central, as it takes a train onto the High Level Bridge. The photograph is thought to date from the late 1950s. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/24/1'><img src='/images/24000/24001.jpg' width='21.268309955076%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1963' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='View of the Forth Bridge from South Queensferry in 1963, the year before the road bridge was opened. Two of the ferries which would be made redundant following the opening of the road bridge stand at Hawes Pier. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/21/815'><img src='/images/21000/21815.jpg' width='18.773726186307%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1972' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='A Metro-Cammell DMU photographed leaving the east end bays at Newcastle Central in 1972 on a North Tyne loop service. The former NER parcels depot stands in Westgate Road on the right. [See image 9463] '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/21/604'><img src='/images/21000/21604.jpg' width='21.455687070065%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1976' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='BR Class 52 diesel-hydraulic D1058 <I>Western Nobleman</I> about to take a train away from Par, Cornwall, in the summer of 1976.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/21/468'><img src='/images/21000/21468.jpg' width='26.466551264889%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1959' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='A K3 about to take a train under the signalbox and over the level crossing at the south end of Belford station, Northumberland, around 1959. [See image 16267] '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/21/223'><img src='/images/21000/21223.jpg' width='12.810956896501%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1972' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Deltic D9019 <I>Royal Highland Fusilier</I> brings an ECML service out of the east end of Newcastle Central in 1972 heading for Edinburgh Waverley.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/21/144'><img src='/images/21000/21144.jpg' width='15.733271948928%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1978' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Berwick-upon-Tweed with a Finsbury Park Deltic racehorse on a northbound service in the Summer of 1978.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/20/927'><img src='/images/20000/20927.jpg' width='26.824042986827%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1976' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='D1053 <i>Western Patriarch</i> with a train at Plymouth in the Summer of 1976.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/20/850'><img src='/images/20000/20850.jpg' width='13.165176902855%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1971' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='View west over Newcastle Central from the Keep in 1971 with a 64B EE Type 4 meeting a Peak on the ECML.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/20/783'><img src='/images/20000/20783.jpg' width='23.261145054063%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1971' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Looking east from the Castle Keep in Newcastle in 1971 as a North Tyneside DMU heads towards Manors. Approaching Central Station with a passenger train is a green Brush Type 4, which is in the process of passing a green EE Type 3 on coal empties. Theres even a green Gateshead bus coming off the Tyne Bridge in the background!'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/20/310'><img src='/images/20000/20310.jpg' width='33.88115347377%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander 10/9/1972' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='A4 Pacific 4498 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> on display at an open day at Thornaby on 10 September 1972 sporting a <I>Waverley</I> headboard.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/18/111'><img src='/images/18000/18111.jpg' width='37.857701472167%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Alexander //1969' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='LB&SCR 214 <I>Gladstone</I> inside the old York railway museum on Queen Street circa 1969.'></a><br></div><script>$(function(){$('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover({trigger:'hover',html:true});});</script></div></span></div> </div> <img style="width: 100%;" src="/xfooter-bw.jpg.pagespeed.ic.eSSsw8dlsI.jpg"> <div class="row footer" style="background-color: #000; color: #FFF !important; font-size: 90%; padding: 30px;"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Quick links</h4> <a href="/">Home</a><br> <a href="/news/">News</a><br> <a href="/contributorlista.html">Contributors</a><br> <a href="/onthisday.php">On this day</a><br> <a href="/latest.php">Latest</a><br> <a href="/articles">Articles</a><br> <a href="/slideshow/">Slideshows</a><br> <a href="/_maps/">Maps</a><br> <a href="/railways.php">Companies</a><br> <a href="/a2z.php">Sitemap</a><br> <a href="/pano/">Panoramic views</a><br> <a href="/tags/">Image tags</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>The Big Five</h4> <a href="/companies/C/Caledonian_Railway/">Caledonian Railway</a><br> <a href="/Glasgow_and_South_Western_Railway/">Glasgow and South Western Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_North_of_Scotland_Railway/">Great North of Scotland Railway</a><br> <a href="/Highland_Railway/">Highland Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/N/North_British_Railway/">North British Railway</a><br> <h4>The Big Four</h4> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br> <a href="/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway/">London and North Eastern Railway</a><br> <a href="/London_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway/">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a><br> <a href="/Southern_Railway/">Southern Railway</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Photographs</h4> <a href="/search/">Search</a><br> <a href="/latest.php">Latest</a><br> <a href="/onthisdayimg.php">On this day</a><br> <a href="/queries/">Notes and Queries</a><br> <a href="/newsinpictures.php">News in pictures</a><br> <h4>Share</h4> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php" target="external">Facebook</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/share" target="external">Twitter</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Scenic Lines</h4> <a href="/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway/">West Highland Railway</a><br> <a href="/Mallaig_Extension_Railway/">Mallaig Extension Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/C/Callander_and_Oban_Railway/">Callander and Oban Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/D/Dingwall_and_Skye_Railway/">Dingwall and Skye Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/I/Inverness_and_Perth_Junction_Railway/">Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Girvan_and_Portpatrick_Junction_Railway/">Girvan and Portpatrick Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/S/Strathspey_Railway/">Strathspey Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/E/Edinburgh_and_Hawick_Railway_North_British_Railway/">Edinburgh and Hawick Railway</a><br> <a href="/routes/F/Far_North_Line/">Far North Line</a><br> <h4>Contact</h4> <a href="/pm/?img=&whoto=Ewan%20Crawford" target="editor">News and picture editor</a><br> <a href="/pm/?img=&whoto=Ewan%20Crawford" target="editor">Technical issues</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12"><br></div> </div> </body> </html>