Looking through a scrapbook collated by ‘Stan’ Hadaway, we unraveled his career from cleaner to steam driver.
Starting as a cleaner at Percy Main in 1942 he ended his career working along the Blyth and Tyne railway as a steam driver.
He was saddened to see the closure of depots and shortening of the Blyth and Tyne and Wansbeck Valley lines as his career with steam slowly came to an end in the 1960s and diesel took over.
Pictured are Hadaway on the J27 with Fireman Raywoods - once a familiar sight at our railway. Also pictured are photos from Hadaway’s scrapbook of J27’s being cleaned and his identification card from 1942 as well as a number of unidentified photos which will take some research to string together his full story.
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