Westoe, South Tyneside

Westoe Lane station, South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway on Last Day, 1953

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View NW, towards South Shields staithes by the (electrified) freight-only line just visible on the left. The SS&WCR passenger service terminated here from Whitburn Colliery; it ceased from this day (22/11/53). For details see [[2043788]]. The locomotive is a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST, No. 7749 of 1952.

Uploaded to Geograph by Walter Dendy, deceased on 22 November 1953

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