The Tyne & Tees Tracker - 15th November 2015

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How it used to be: Stalybridge, an east bound service on 21 June 1975 with a rather smart looking Swindon built Class 124 'Trans-Pennine' DMU, at the then P1 (now P4), looking west towards Manchester. The rusty line is the middle siding; its stop block is behind the cameraman. <br>[&#169; Ian Mortimer 1975]	The youngest participant on the tour, Lucy Lewis taking her own picture at Newcastle. Lucy kindly drew the raffle prizes (if you did not win, you know who to blame!); over £700 was raised from the raffle, a brilliant result.	A colourful group photo on Newcastle P10 in front of 185151.<br>[&#169; Geoff Plumb 2015]	The sign confronting our 185 railtour participants, (23 years worth of passengers all in one go!) who duly remained on the platform, at the rather rural Teesside Airport station (for 'Durham Tees Valley International Airport', 15 minutes walk away). It would be interesting to speculate how a passenger might use the bridge without standing on it.<br>[&#169; Patrick Chandler 2015]	This view shows the nature of the problem. Investment can hardly be justified with eight passengers a year not all of whom would even need to use the bridge! <br>[&#169; Patrick Chandler 2015]	The Tyne & Tees Tracker back in York P2; York Maintenance siding is right; the tour had just traversed this to the far end of 150139. Happy participants are left on the platform.<br>[&#169; Simon Mortimer 2015]