As well as steam trains taking on water before heading off for the last time, they include the long-vanished custom of Wakes Week – where the town’s workers would descend en masse to the station for two weeks by the seaside – along with excited schoolchildren departing for a school trip abroad.
1. Wallgate and the station at the turn of the 19th century
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2. The last steam trains through Wallgate station taking on water before heading off for the last time (Pic: David Wharton)
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3. The last steam trains through Wallgate station, 1968. (Pic: David Wharton)
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4. Scenes of the last steam trains through Wallgate station, 1968 (Pic: David Wharton)
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