Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

Sunderland. How many locomotive sheds did the town possess? 67247 was a G5 0-4-4T based at Sunderland South Dock in 1948, shed code 54A. By 1960 none of the G5 class was in existence - all had been withdrawn by circa 1958 - and the only shed listed for Sunderland was 52G. All the 53 and 54 listings had disappeared. In 1952 Sunderland South Dock had one of the BR Class 4 2-6-0s, no 76023, and that could be the engine in front of the 0-4-4T. If so, it was relatively new in 1954, having been completed on 31 December 1952. Sister locomotive 76069 is preserved and now [2010] based on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
Maybe that's another G5 going on shed on the third 'road', with the fireman about to step off? I think there's a plan to recreate a member of this North Eastern class of locomotive, which dates from around the dawn of the 20th century

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