[Source:
Paul Wright & Alan Young]
A Cravens (later Class 105) 2-car DMU is leaving Bacup on Friday 10 June 1966 en route to Rawtenstall and Bury. To the left, ‘Black Five’ No.44728 is shunting a guards van past India Mill. The River Irwell can be seen emerging from a culvert towards the bottom of the photograph. The chimneys of Plantation, Throstle and Forest cotton mills are seen in the background. No.44728 is a Stanier-designed 4-6-0 built at British Railways’ Crewe works in January 1949 and allocated to 26C, Bolton shed. She survived into the final months of steam on BR, being withdrawn on 31 January 1968 to be disposed of at Drapers, Neptune Street Goods Yard, Hull the following May.
Photo by Ian G Holt
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