The NELPG's J72 'Joem' was outside Darlington Hopetown Works today for transportation to the Wensleydale Railway where I was fortunate enough to get these close photos - 'Joem' is the last preserved NER locomotive that I haven't seen so a nice one to mentally tick off the list!
J72 69023 'Joem'
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J72 69023 'Joem'
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Happy to help with anything relating to the railways in the First World War, just ask
Re: J72 69023 'Joem'
One thing that always makes me smile about Joem is that on the one hand she's the youngest "LNER group" engine to be built in 1950-51 [OK we now have Tornado built a few years ago]. Yet on the other hand by "design" she's one of the oldest as the design dates back to the 1890s'........