Thanks to David Trout for agreeing for this to be shared
Train crash at Consett.In the winter of ( I think) 1959/1960 I photographed this scene of a train wreck at Consett’s Low yard where the interchange sidings between British Rail and Consett Iron Company were situated.
A load of coal trucks hauled by a Class Q6 freight loco lost breaking control on the incline between the site of the town’s former passenger station and the Low Yard and ran off the tracks on a curved embankment adjacent to the town’s engine sheds.
I can’t recall if there were any casualties. The locomotive, No. 63372 became the first of the 120 strong Q6 class to be scrapped.
picture taken by David Trout
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