Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

44606 at Bamford railway station in the 1950s

Fowler Class 4F-C locomotive no. 44606 was built on 31 March 1941 at Derby Works for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, withdrawn on 31 March 1962 and scrapped at Horwich Works by British Rail. A total of 772 of this class were built, initially by the Midland Railway, and a later batch by the LMS.

Three LMS-built 4Fs survive, and the first-built LMS 4F No. (4)4027 is part of the National Railway Collection.
This station serves the village of Bamford in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. It was opened in 1894 on the Midland Railway's Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line). It became an unstaffed halt in 1969. The last Station Master (called Mr. Bamford, believe it or not!) purchased Station House, which had been built in 1902, in 1968.

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