Photographs of the Month
May
LNER Class A3 4-6-2 no. 2745 Captain Cuttle stands in the yard at Carlisle Canal engine shed in the 1930s.
April
Solway Ranger - ex-LMS Class 2MT 2-6-0s Nos 46426 and 46458 stand Workington Main station having arrived from a run over the CK&P line with an RCTS Railtour from Leeds on June 13th 1965.
March
Metropolitan Railway Bo-bo electric no. 17 stands ex-works outside the Vickers works at Barrow in 1923. This locomotive was later named Florence Nightingale and was scrapped in 1943 after an accident.
February
Woodend station and crossing photographed from the signal box looking south
in the 1950s
January
Howgill Brake, Whitehaven: an NCB hopper wagon descends from Haig Colliery
to the harbour in July 1959.
December
Ex-Furness Railway 0-6-0 seen at Workington about 1954 as British Railways no. 52494, one of the last surviving FR locos.
November
Tebay - an LNWR 4-4-2T calls with an up local train in the 1930s.
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