THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY WORKS.
The locomotive works of the North-Eastern Railway are situated on the south bank of the Tyne, not far removed from the Stephenson High-Level Bridge. The site was originally that of an extensive goods station, and several of the shop buildings remain just as they were in those days, but in 1883 and 1884 the works were largely rebuilt, extended, and reorganised.
Some old associations, however, still remain, a particularly tender one among the elder hands being that, thro..