L1055 - Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.

L1055 - Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.
L1055 - Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.
L1055 - Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.
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L1055 - Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.
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L1055 - Hudswell Clarke & Co. 0-6-0 contractor's saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE, No. 237 of 1882, pictured with her crew and a team of navvies at Culworth, Northamptonshire in 1896. Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the base of Walter Scott & Co., the firm who built this stretch of the railway (Contract No. 5, Woodford to Brackley). Note the engine's outside cylinders - unusual among the contractors' locomotives working on the London Extension.



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L1055.tif
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Original media type: Glass plate negative
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