BR Darlington

BR Darlington (the British Railways North Eastern Region design office at Darlington Works) inherited the engineering tradition of the NER and the LNER's North Eastern Area. It was responsible for several BR Standard locomotive deliveries and for the design or assembly of various early diesel-electric locomotives in the 1950s and early 1960s. The works closed to locomotive work on 2 April 1966 in the post-Beeching rationalisation of British Railways' engineering capacity.