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The last days of steam were captured on film by photographer Colin Gifford who told us about his work currently on show in the North-East.
Colin Gifford has clear memories of Christmas Day, 1958, and they don't involve holly, turkey and plum pudding.
No, while others were toasting their toes before the fire, Colin was at Newcastle Central Station, taking photographs of trains and keeping an eye on a wall-mounted thermometer whose mercury never rose above freezing.
In those days, he recalls, you could get an overnight train to Newcastle from King's Cross. Its job was to bring newspapers to the North and it left late on a Friday night. For 36 shillings (pounds 1.80p) you could hitch a ride, sleeping on the cushions and winding up at Central Station in the early hours.
Colin availed himself of its services many times, stopping off "anywhere north of York" to take more beautifully atmospheric photographs of the steam age, soon to pass into memory.
Over 10 years, from 1958 to...