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Picture Number1090
Courtesy OfMarcel Gommers
Year1954
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Leyburn Railway Station 1954

Photo of the Leyburn Railway Station as it was in 1954. Waiting at the platform is a passenger train headed by steam locomotive 67345.
This station serves the town of Leyburn in North Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1856 by Bedale & Leyburn Railway and was in service for nearly a century when it was closed again in 1954 (due to low traffic levels apparently).
However, the station has been re-opened by Wensleydale Railway.
On this photo it looks as there are two platforms, not sure whether that is correct though.


Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture Added on 27 December 2009.

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The locomotive is an North Eastern Railway Class G5 0-4-4T, a William Worsdell design. A total of 110 were built between 1894 and 1901, across seven batches.
The G5s were noted for being sturdy, working long and economical careers. They worked throughout the North-East area, and could be found on both branch line passenger trains and the heavier suburban trains. They were regularly clocked at 60mph on the Middlesborough to Newcastle services.
The first withdrawal was in 1950, but most were withdrawn between 1955 and 1958 as they were replaced by diesel railcars and DMUs (diesel multiple units). The last G5 was withdrawn in 1958.
None of the G5s survived into preservation. However, the Class G5 Lcomotive Company Limited has been formed to build a brand new G5 for use on preservation lines primarily in the north east.

Added by Peter Langsdale on 21 January 2010.
It would seem, from a recent shot by Dr Neil Clifton, that part of the platform on the left survives but that on the right, where 67345 stood with its train in 1954, has gone: compare the rock terraces to the right of the locomotive with those on the Geograph image:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/133727
The first carriage beyond the G5 is a Gresley GNR or LNER brake composite in all probability - space for guard, first and third class passengers. I don't think second class existed in 1954 but I may well be wrong!
Added by Martin Bodman on 21 January 2010.
3rd class was ended in 1956.
Added by Peter Langsdale on 21 January 2010.

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