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NorthEastern pride at North Tyneside’s 30th anniversary

ONFebruary 26, 1965, a driver at Percy Main shed remarked to his fireman:“This placewill never close.”

He was wrong. The very next day, J27 0-6-0 No. 65795 moved off the shed for the last time, with a Union Jack tied across its smokebox door to mark the end of steam–making the last in a long line of 0-6-0 freight engines to work from the

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