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L&YR No. 740. - JCA00343
Turntable at unknown location.
Saddle Tanks at Horwich 1961. - JCA00344
Loco Nos. 11304, 11305, 51429, 11324. Photo John Marshall.
Cheetham Hill Junction, Manchester, June 1960 - JCA00345
Former L&YR 0-4-4T and 0-6-27.
West Vale Station, Stainland Branch, Halifax. - JCA00348
The small intermediate station between Greetland on the Calder Valley Main Line and the Branch terminus at Holywell Green. Whilst the terminus station had only one platform West Vale has two both with stone buildings unlike some on the Main Line…
Preserved L&YR Tank Loco No. 1008. - JCA00369
Tank Locomotive No. 1008, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
Designed by John Aspinall, this locomotive was placed in service in 1889. No. 1008 was the first locomotive to be built at Horwich Works, and was designed to operate the numerous busy…
Designed by John Aspinall, this locomotive was placed in service in 1889. No. 1008 was the first locomotive to be built at Horwich Works, and was designed to operate the numerous busy…
Sound and Fury' Painting. - JCA00371
"SOUND AND FURY - Atlantic No. 1419 storms away from Poulton-le-Fylde with a Blackpool-Manchester express."
[From a painting by H. M. Le Fleming, based on a photograph by J. M. Tomlinson.
[From a painting by H. M. Le Fleming, based on a photograph by J. M. Tomlinson.
On the L&YR Sixty Years Ago'. - JCA00372
An express train on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at the turn of the century, reproduced from a painting by F. Moore executed for Sir John Aspinall, the General Manager. The locomotive is one of the 4-4-0s built at Horwich while he was Chief…
Hebden Bridge Station, c1961 - DEP00179
Looking up the line towards Todmorden. The large goods warehouse, demolished 1969, on right with an endless belt hoist, originally there had been three. A water turret can be seen on the left.
Floods at Callis Bridge, Charlestown, 1961 - HBC00856
We have this photo dated 1961, but Jonathan Greenwood comments: “I have a copy of this print because the building in the centre used to belong to my great grandparents, Thomas (Tommy) & Harriet Louisa (Louie) Knight, who ran it as a bakery. They both…
Charlestown Railway Disaster, 1912 - HBC00857
On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Charlestown Railway Disaster, 1912 - HBC00858
On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Charlestown Railway Disaster, 1912 - HBC00859
On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Charlestown Railway Disaster, 1912 - HBC00860
On the 21st of June the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards "tearing…
Charlestown Railway Disaster - HBC00861
On the 21st of June, 1912, the 2.45 from Rochdale and Liverpool approached the infamous Charlestown curve at about 40 miles per hour and left the line, killing four passengers.
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards…
Although off the rails, the train was carried for a further 100 yards…
