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 An N.E.R. 0-4-4T sits across the 4 foot track instead of on it, I can’t quite make out its running number, but it could be 96 – a turn-of-the-century image. The engineering team are on hand, the jib of the lifter can just be seen behind the locomotive. This is one for the rivet-counters out there – what class of locomotive is this? Suggestions of a G5 from Robert McMurray. Eric Johnson told the Archive: “N.E.R. class “O”, no 505. de-railed at Boulby. Thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.  Oops – this looks like a right purler! Now known to be an incident involving NER locomotive no 1294, it ran away on the zig zag and hit the buffers at the bottom end. The Archive’s guess that was correct, believing that the train got away on him and either the guard got his hand-brake on and the locomotive didn’t, or a wagon skipped the track and this was the result. It looks like a train of empties, so I’m surprised that the locomotive couldn’t hold it on the gradient. Looking at the collateral damage, I bet someone lost his job over this! |
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