43107 Stockton 3 April 1999

43107 leads the diverted 1E12 09:55 Aberdeen to Kings Cross GNER 'Northern Lights' service past Stockton on 3 April 1999. Due to engineering work on the Darlington line over the Easter weekend, most services were diverted via Sunderland, Hartlepool and Stockton. This view shows the typical poor state of most railways in an urban location, with all kinds of rubbish strewn all over the track, not helped by the fact that large areas of former railway land (such as that on the left) are now semi-derelict.