North Eastern Railway Buffers

Quite recently in the car park of Sainsburys in Saltburn the North Eastern Railway (NER) buffers which were adjacent to Dundas Street and the current platform have been set in concrete.
I had wondered where the metal castings had got to when Network Rail were conducting work on the tracks here a while ago. Saltburn in Bloom have been key to them being restored, by Marske Fabrications, and have been placed here as a memorial to the railway heritage of Saltburn.

These castings date from around 1861, NER buffers started to be constructed from rail after this date.

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