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I wonder where this one was destined for??

Ah, Vickers Armstrongs..........at one stage the largest factory complex in Europe, shame it's all closed now 😞

I hadn't realised they made these.

What a lovely piece of lethal machinery. The electronics age has removed much of the splendour of machinery.

A real complex bit of kit.

The boiler on the left appears to be under a steam test with pressure gauge, water level sight glass and temporary regulator handle. A fascinating photograph.

Preassure testing yes, but with water. It was much safer.

Armstrong, Tyneside repaired ex W.D. - R.O.D.'s post war, this may be what we are looking at, some of them were on sold to China. Whoops, looks like 'Tags' look like a brain-storming session! Nor can I see a 'train anywhere, and only barely half a locomotive.

Fantastic capture!!

an interesting picture, although it looks as if they are brand new locomotive boilers being finished, by the amount of identical boilers and the workshop layout