No.135 North East Medley - including Q6, L1 and V3
Not so long ago Hornby released their new Q6 models. Having been brought up in Middlesbrough there was no question about it, there would have to be a Q6 or even two on my layout. First a picture from the past, the location is just to the south of Thornaby Station which provided visibility of all the lines from Middlesbrough and Thornaby before they diverged to Stockton (for the north), Redmashall (west) and Eaglescliffe (to the south). Q6 63445 – Thornaby 1960 or 61 63443 was the first Q6 to arrive on the layout. It had an Early Emblem and shed code 51G for Haverton Hill. It is pictured below on a train of ICI tank wagons, the sort that originated from Cassell Works, ICI Billingham. Haverton Hill shed along with a number of other small Teesside sheds closed around 1960 with locomotives concentrated at the newly constructed Thornaby depot. 63443 appears not to have gone to Thornaby and instead was reallocated to West Auckland for coal and coke traffic. Hornby Q6 E