THE BORO' (NO BEER!)

We continue our look at the large town of Middlesbrough and now find ourselves at the NER built ralway station. It was later badly damaged in WW2.

Recently, only Middlesbrough West signal box controlled movements here.

A DMU in the station in 1979.

47407 "Aycliffe" deputises for a failed DMU in 1987.

"Pacers" later became the staple on local services.

TransPennine run the longer distance routes.

Apart from Middlesbrough Corporation/Cleveland Transit, the biggest local operator was United Automobile Services.

United later became Tees & District.

Tees & District became part of Arriva. Middlesbrough was home to these rare Temsa bodied saloons.

The Go Ahead Group's buses from the Newcastle area are frequent visitors to Middlesbrough.

After deregulation, various independents appeared in the town. These included Trimdon MS, Delta, Escort and Leven Valley. All no longer exist.

Blue Line ran an express coach service into the town.

Modern independents include Abbott's of Leeming, Compass Royston and Stagecarriage.

North Yorkshire Brewery was once in the town and Crookham Travel paid a visit.

The Resolution was one of the town's Wetherspoons, but it's now closed.

The Tap & Barrel was once a great free house, but it's no longer a pub.

It appears that the Malt Shovel is also a closure casualty. Oh dear, no beer!

So, we take a look at the town in its industrial heyday, from the banks of the Tees.

We could take the transporter bridge back into County Durham.

But, no, we'll stay on the Yorkshire side and find one of those unusual steam locos, converted to compressed air operation, at South Bank Works.

Next time, we'll see more of industrial Teesside and maybe the coast.