Pictures taken at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum: Head of Steam


This is Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early British steam locomotive built for the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Built by George and Robert Stephenson's company Robert Stephenson and Company in 1825. It was the first locomotive to haul a passenger carrying service.

In 1857 it was preserved. Locomotion No. 1 was on display in Alfred Kitching's workshop near Hopetown Carriage Works from 1857 to the 1880s. From 1892 to 1975 it was on display along with Derwent on one of the platforms at Darlington's main station, Bank Top. The locomotive is now on display at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, located in the same building as Darlington's North Road station, on long-term loan from the National Railway Museum. It is now part of the National Collection

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Pictures taken at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum: Head of Steam

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Derwent is an 0-6-0 steam locomotive built in Darlington in 1845 by William and Alfred Kitching for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). It is preserved at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum.

"Derwent" was designed by Timothy Hackworth and built by W. & A. Kitching in Darlington, England in 1845.

with outside cylinders fixed at the trailing end of the boiler and four ft dia, six-wheeled coupled wheels.

Withdrawn from service in 1869, it was sold to Pease & Partners for use on their colliery lines and spent some time at the construction of the Waskerley reservoir. It took part in the Stephenson Centenary celebrations at Newcastle in 1881 and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.

Derwent was presented to the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1898 for preservation. After restoration the locomotive ran under its own steam in the 1925 Railway Centenary procession and on trials the day before the procession, achieved a speed of 12 m.p.h.

Otherwise for many years it was on display alongside Locomotion No 1 on a plinth on one of the platforms at Darlington's main station, Bank Top. In the 1960s it was removed and restored in near original condition, and then moved in the 1970s to the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum located in the same building as Darlington's North Road railway station, where it remains on display on long-term loan from the National Railway Museum. It is now part of the National Collection.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_%28locomotive%29

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Here we see 901 a Darlington built North Eastern Railway Class T3, (classified Q7 by the LNER) 0-8-0 steam locomotive which was designed for heavy freight.

Five were built by the NER in 1919 and a further 10 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1924. All were built in Darlingoton

All of the Q7 locomotives were withdrawn in 1962, with only LNER No. 901 (BR No. 63460) surviving into preservation as a part of the National Collection. After spending the 1970s in storage, No. 901 was loaned to the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) who restored it to running condition during the 1980s. It entered service with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) in 1988, and performed excellent work hauling the heaviest of the NYMR's summer trains until the boiler certificate expired in 1999. No. 901 is currently on static display at the Darlington 'Head of Steam' Museum

www.lner.info/locos/Q/q7.shtml

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Pictures taken at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum: Head of Steam


Here we see 901 a Darlington built North Eastern Railway Class T3, (classified Q7 by the LNER) 0-8-0 steam locomotive which was designed for heavy freight.

Five were built by the NER in 1919 and a further 10 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1924. All were built in Darlingoton

All of the Q7 locomotives were withdrawn in 1962, with only LNER No. 901 (BR No. 63460) surviving into preservation as a part of the National Collection. After spending the 1970s in storage, No. 901 was loaned to the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) who restored it to running condition during the 1980s. It entered service with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) in 1988, and performed excellent work hauling the heaviest of the NYMR's summer trains until the boiler certificate expired in 1999. No. 901 is currently on static display at the Darlington 'Head of Steam' Museum

www.lner.info/locos/Q/q7.shtml

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