Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

Moor Row was on the Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Joint Railway, operated prior to 1923 by the Furness Railway [FR] and the London & North Western [LNWR]. From Sellafield on the FR, south of Whitehaven, the line ran inland to link up with the LNWR north of Whitehaven. Presumably the latter had running powers over the Maryport & Carlisle. Moor Row was apparently a junction with branches to Crossfield (freight only) and Whitehaven and there may have been an engine shed here.
The locomotive is probably one of Aspinall's Lancashire & Yorkshire class 27 0-6-0s, listed as 3F by British Railways, first introduced in 1889. Some were fitted with Belpaire fireboxes and extended smokeboxes after 1911, as this engine appears to be. 52501 had been withdrawn by 1960. The coaches are in the British Railways 'blood and custard' livery of the 1950s

The Geograph image here may represent the site of Moor Row station in 2005:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/89929
It may be that the road bridge beyond the footbridge was in fact a railway bridge carrying the line from Whitehaven to Eskett?. The main line may have continued north via the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. All these lines became part of the LMS after 1922, and then British Railways Midland Region after Nationalisation, post World War II

Strangely, BR No. 52501 is not included in my Ian Allan Combined Volume 1948 edition, there is a gap between 52466 and 52515. However the RailUK web site states that this was LMS No. 12501 built about 1918 under works lot number 5196, shedded at 12D (Workington) in 1948 and 11A (Carnforth) as its last home, withdrawn on 30 June 1957 and scrapped on 31 August 1957.

52501 is a former Furness Railway 0-6-0 rebuilt with L&YR boiler. These were designed by Pettigrew and three lasted until 1957.

The gap in Peter's Ian Allen is probably caused by 52494, 52499,52501, 52509 and 52510 being temporarily moved to a separate class as they had smaller driving wheels than the rest at 4'7 1/2" along with other differences.
They were restored to their rightful place in my 1955/6 edition with notes. 52494 is pictured in my I A.

52501 was built by Kitson&Son withdrawn 1957 scrapped same year.

From articles in various websites (including the SLS and Historical Metallurgy Society), this railtour was jointly organised by the SLS and the Manchester Locomotive Society. I don't have an exact date for the tour, but the year is quoted as 1954.
The Cumbrian Railways Association had a photospread of this tour in the Vol 9, Number 9 (Feb 2009) edition of their Journal.
The reporting number W699 was also used for a SLS / MLS joint tour of North Lancashire on 1st May 1954, but the loco used throughout was a Fowler 2-6-4T number 42316.
Web searches using SLS and W699, or MLS and W699, both return only the North Lancs railtour.

The tour took place on 5th May 1954, using locos 52494 and 52501, two of the last remaining Furness Railway 0-6-0s. The website Six Bells Junction has the details.

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