Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE.
Hudswell Clarke & Co. 0-6-0 contractor's saddletank locomotive, NEWCASTLE, No. 237 of 1882, pictured with her crew and a team of navvies at Culworth, Northamptonshire in 1896. Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the base of Walter Scott & Co., the firm who built this stretch of the railway (Contract No. 5, Woodford to Brackley). Note the engine's outside cylinders - unusual among the contractors' locomotives working on the London Extension. See on Route Map
Digital Reference: L1055
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - 1896
Publisher: Leicestershire County Council
Type: Black and White
Format: 118mm, 161mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (part of S. W. A. Newton Collection, copy of glass plate negative)
Identifier: Newton - CL 55
OS Reference: 456800 246900
