1955
SD9424 : Westbound coal train at Hall Royd Junction, Todmorden
taken 69 years ago, near to Todmorden, Calderdale, England

Westbound coal train at Hall Royd Junction, Todmorden
View eastward on a wet day, towards Sowerby Bridge, Wakefiled etc.: ex-L&Y Calder Valley main line. The Class J coal train has emerged from Horsfall Tunnel and is turning onto the line to Burnley, passing a BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0. At its head is a typical LMS Fowler 7F 0-8-0, No. 49566 (built 1929, withdrawn 9/57). The lines on the right go to Todmorden, Rochdale and Manchester.