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COCKFIELD FELL station closed in 1958 and the tracks were removed soon afterwards but, remarkably, amazingly, a little bit of it still survives on…

“I GET a bit narky when I read that Morris Marinas were the worst car ever built,” says David Bell of Newton Aycliffe who is the proud owner of…

A 1960s Daimler double decker bus once owned by Darlington Corporation Transport has found its way into the hands of the Aycliffe & District Bus…

“WHAT a brilliant and ultimately hilarious picture of the three men whitening the zebra crossing in Tubwell Row,” says Jo Jones, referring to…

“They are at opposite ends of the economy/luxury spectrum,” said Richard Stone. Nearest the camera, agreed all of our old car spotters, was a Renault Dauphine. “Dauphines were cheap, economical, and comfortable but had questionable handling, limited power, and a propensity to rust away before the first MoT test, as did my employer’s,” said Richard. Mike Crawley said: “This brought back memories of the swinging Sixties for me when I was a junior salesman at a Renault dealersh...

TO help the environment, Arriva announced in 2013 that it would begin running gas-powered buses in south Durham – they are the ones with the flat bulge, like a saddle on a worm, on the roof. But there is nothing new under the sun, and in Memories 513 we published a Second World War picture of United buses in the depot at Northallerton pulling strange trailers behind them. Was it a strange fuelling experiment, we asked? “Not an experiment but a wartime expedient based on well establish...