Shildon, Church Street c.1965
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S704005

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In 1921, locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing in the North East provided 6300 jobs; by 1951, the figure had risen to 11,000. Then in 1965 BR suddenly closed North Road Works, Darlington. With private locomotive manufacturing also in decline, only Shildon was left with anything like a substantial workforce. Shildon survived as a wagon builders and repairers long enough to celebrate its 175th anniversary, then it too was closed.
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