Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

42884 passing Garsdale with a fast freight in 1962

Ex-LMS Hughes "Crab" 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive 42884 was built in 1930 at Crewe, as no. 13184, becoming LMS no. 2884. Three of this class have survived, 13000/(4)2700, 13065/(4)2765 and 13159/(4)2859. The first-built locomotive, 2700 is part of the National Railway Collection and currently on static display. 42765 has been restored to working order on the East Lancs Railway, but 42859 is still in scrapyard condition, stored at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire.

Adjoining the station are 16 Railway Cottages built for its employees by the Midland Railway Company around 1876, the year the Settle-Carlisle line opened. A further 6 cottages were added near to the Moorcock Inn soon afterwards. The station once boasted the highest water troughs in the world (just along the line at Ling Gill), and a waiting room where Anglican church services were held. Also Garsdale, in steam days, had a turntable with a wall of sleepers around it to prevent locomotives being spun by strong winds as happened in 1900.

Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Text courtesy of Peter Langsdale