I guess I'll have to go back to spending more time doing work!!
Thanks very much for sharing all of these photos of a world that is before my time; it strikes me that they pick up wide cross-section of railway life - and not just the big expresses - and this is what makes this thread so good.
Look forward to the Northumberland pictures - it's one of my favourite parts of the country and those old branches that wandered the country are long lost.