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1 40009 Guide Bridge May 1955
Guide Bridge is near Ashton-under-Lyne, on the old Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, which became the Great Central Railway in 1897, and later part of the LNER at the amalgamation into the "Big 4" in 1923. Express trains ran from Manchester London Road to London Marylebone via Guide Bridge, Woodhead, Sheffield and Nottingham. The LMS had trains running on part of the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway. This train is on a local passenger train, probably to Stockport. The locomotive, a Fowler-designed
2-6-2 tank, one of 70 built from 1930 onwards for the LMS. A local nickĀname for these was "bread vans". They were not well-regarded. In 1935 Stanier introduced a much better version of 2-6-2 tank locos of which 139 were built. They had tapered boilers and enclosed cabs.
2 40052 Trafford Park 9 July 1955
This locomotive is also a Fowler 2-6-2 tank. It is taking a local train from Manchester Central (now "G-Mex"). Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium can be glimpsed - far left - under the footbridge steps.
3 41904 Lancaster Shed 26 August 1960
A 0-4-4 tank loco, one of the first designs turned out by Stanier after he had become CME of the LMS in 1932. It has none of Stanier's trade-mark features and is almost entirely "Midland". Only ten were built. This loco is "out of service" and almost certainly bound for the scrap yard.
4 42065 Manchester Central Station 8 June 1960
This is a Fairburn 2-6-4 tank loco, which was a 1945 development of Stanier's very successful design of 1934, of which 375 were built. Fairburn's modifications were relatively minor and in line with current locomotive development, and of these 250 were built. The design continued into the British Railways era, with further modifications as the Standard 2-6-4 tank, numbered 80000-80154, of which 155 were built. The locomotive is carrying "Express passenger" lamps on the buffer beam, and it is not clear whether it is waiting to take a train, or to go on shed after it's turn.
5 42079 Manchester Central station 25 July 1962.
Another Fairburn 2-6-4 tank departing with a local train. It carries the "Ordinary passenger" lamp above the smoke box front.
6 42339 Manchester Central station 1 September 1960
This is Henry Fowler's original 2-6-4 tank loco of 1927, having a parallel boiler and the Midland-type cab. 95 were built. This loco preceded Stanier's design of 1934, on which Fairburn loco was based
7 42417 Manchester Central station 21 June 1959
The last 30 examples of Fowler's 2-6-4 tank locos were given a more enclosed cab, giving greater protection for the crew.
8 43027 Saltley Shed (Birmingham) 23 April 1950, photograph by lan Whitehead.
In 1947 H G Ivatt, then CME of British Railways Midland Region, turned out a very practical 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive designed for easy to maintenance. Everything was readily accessible. The early locos also had a double chimney, a feature which was later discarded. The overall appearance is thought by many to be very ugly; nevertheless, one example (43106) is preserved at the Severn Valley Railway. In this photograph it appears that the engineers have fitted a stovepipe chimney, in an experiment to improve draughting, but it does nothing for the appearance of the loco.
9 44932 Newton Heath Shed (26A) (Manchester) 23 July 1949, photograph by John Bairstow
Newton Heath was one of the largest sheds in the country, having 22 roads, each capable of holding six engines. The locomotive is on the south turntable, and the extent of the shed is clearly shown.
10 44942 Wilmslow 16 July 1960
This train, behind another Stanier "Black 5" is approaching Wilmslow station from the south, with a train for Manchester Piccadilly, and is carrying "Express passenger" lamps on the buffer beam. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway shed, it was home to a wide variety of types. 44932 is a later version of Stanier's "Black 5" 4-6-0, which was introduced on the LMS in 1934. Building continued into and during the 1939-45 war, and a total of 842 locos were built overall. A number of experiments were carried out on later examples. This was a very efficient and versatile locomotive type, and saw service throughout the system. The L & Y enginemen started a football team called "Newton Heath Loco", which later became Manchester United
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