[Source: Nick Catford and Alan Young]
Earby Station Gallery 3: September 1962 - 1973  Earby station, looking north on 22 September 1962, during a visit by the RCTS ‘Mid Lancs Railtour’. The main station building with its verandah is on the down platform, and the goods shed is seen beyond it in the distance. The tour began and ended at Preston and included the Padiham (North Lancashire) Loop, the Cherry Tree-Chorley line, and the Longridge, Grassington and Barnoldswick branches; the BR(LM) running-in nameboard advises passengers at Earby that they may change for Barnoldswick. The loco is BR Class 2standard light 2-6-0 built at Darlington works in November 1954. She was originally allocated to 10B, Preston shed, and was in service until December 1966 when she was withdrawn from 84G, Shrewsbury shed, to be cut up in August 1967 by Cashmores, Newport.
On 22 September 1962 the RCTS ‘Mid Lancs Rail Tour’ is calling at Earby; the tour included the Barnoldswick Branch. The BR(LM) running-in nameboard on the up platform has replaced the earlier LMS ‘Hakseye’ type. The loco No.78036 is BR Class 2 standard light 2-6-0 which remained in service until December 1966.
Copyright photo by HC Casserley
The RCTS ‘Dalesman Rail Tour’ is visiting Earby on 4 May 1963, hauled by No.3442 ‘The Great Marquess’. The tour included the Arthington- Ilkley-Skipton line, the Grassington and Barnoldswick branches, the Padiham Loop, and the Blackburn-Hellifield line which had closed to passenger traffic the previous year. The view northward from the footbridge includes both passenger station buildings and the goods shed. The loco is a Gresley-designed Class K4 2-6-0 built at the LNER Darlington works in July 1938. She was withdrawn from 62A, Thornton Junction shed (Fife, Scotland) in December 1961. Here she is carrying her original number (LNER) 3442, which was changed by the LNER to 1994 and by British Railways to 61994. The loco was bought from BR by Viscount Garnock for preservation and she has subsequently worked on a number of preserved lines as well as on the national network.
Photo from Jim Lake collection 
An informal 1960s view of the up platform at Earby with a Skipton-bound diesel multiple unit calling at the station. Parcels traffic consists of three packets of wallpaper. In the foreground is one of the Midland Railway lamp standards with the dangling wires used to light and extinguish the gas lantern.
Photo by G Tonks old1.jpg) A Manchester-bound Class 113 Cravens DMU waits in the down platform at Earby station on a wet day in March 1965. These two-car sets were supplied to the London Midland Region in 1960 and lasted until 1969. A former LMS tank with passenger coaches stands in the goods siding. Note
the cobbled goods yard. Photo by G. Lumb old11.jpg) Earby station on Saturday 25 September 1965 as the last passenger train to Barnoldswick awaits departure. Station Master Mr. R. Lemon prepares to wave the train away. 84015 is a Riddles-designed Standard Class 2, 2-6-4 tank. Built in 1953, it entered service on 2 October at Low Moor shed and had a working life of just over 12 years, when it was withdrawn from Eastleigh shed on 11 December 1965; it was cut up by the Central Wagon Co. in February 1966.
Photo by Robin Higgins 
Looking north from the down island platform of Earby station in April 1969. The footbridge with its lattice parapets dominates the view. The main building with its verandah is on this platform and a subsidiary building, stone-built and of similar appearance, is on the up platform. The BR (LM) running-in nameboard on the up platform looks unnecessarily tall, but it formerly carried a further board advising passengers that this was the junction for Barnoldswick – which it had ceased to be in September 1965.
Photo by Geoffrey Lewthwaite old9.jpg) Earby station signal box and up platform looking north in November 1969.
Photo by MA King from John Mann collection old10.jpg) Earby station signal box looking south in November 1969.
Photo by MA King from John Mann collection old11.jpg) Earby station looking south in 1971.
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