THE 1940s were revisited at the weekend when hundreds of people flocked to Darlington Railway Carnival.
The theme of the event was the 1940s and there was an array of entertainment from the era.
Vintage vehicles, music, costumes and children's entertainers were on hand to make the carnival, held at the town's Railway Centre and Museum, a roaring success.
The carnival was originally set up to raise money for injured railway men and proved so successful it paid for the building and upkeep of the Darlington Memorial Hospital before the NHS was founded,
The carnivals were stopped by the Second World War, but were restarted as a nostalgic event when the town's railway museum opened.
Among the performances at the two-day carnival was a special musical tribute to war time evacuees by children from Beaumont Hill Special School, Darlington.
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