Shildon, County Durham, death of industrial town 30 images Created 6 Sep 2017
Shildon, County Durham, once known as "the cradle of the railways" grew in 1925 when the Stockton & Darlington Railway established it's workshops. After the 2nd World War, it was one of the biggest sidings complexes in Europe. As privatisation loomed in the early 1980s, British Railways wanted to shed its loss-making manufacturing division – although Shildon itself was in profit. The works closed in 1984 (2 years before I took these photos) leaving a loss of 1,700 jobs
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