Time Capsules - Old Photographs | Matlock Bath Railway Station

	1095
	Marcel Gommers
	1952

Matlock Bath Railway Station

Photo of Matlock Bath Railway Station as it was in 1952.
Matlock Bath station was opened in 1849 by the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway right in the middle of the village of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England.
The station still exists, though it is now a single platform station with a single track running. In the photo above there are two tracks and two platforms though the one on the right seems not to be in use.

Running through the station is a passenger train headed by 4-6-0 steam locomotive 45649.

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

Comments

The locomotive is one of Sir William Stanier's 'Jubilee' class of 4-6-0s. Introduced in 1934, the engines had three cylinders and were classfied by British Railways as 6P5F: about 190 were built. 45649 was named 'Hawkins': 45690 'Leander' and 45699 'Galatea' survive in preservation
Added by Martin Bodman on 28 January 2010.

Alan Heardman has uploaded a 2008 shot of the station on the Geograph site:
see www.geograph.org.uk/photo/823231. The far platform has gone and there appears to be a public footpath alongside the woods. Gone too, are the lamp-posts and the water crane. The Time Capsules shot appears to show a London-Manchester express; the coaches in the early British Railways livery of 'blood and custard'. Peak Rail now has possession of the line to the north of Matlock, the next station, running trains to Rowsley. This area of Derbyshire was where Arkwright established his cotton mills, powered by the waters of the Derwent, and the station featured in a section of Michael Portillo's 'Great British Rail Journeys', transmitted on BBC2 on 25 January 2010
Added by Martin Bodman on 28 January 2010.

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