Search This Blog

Monday, 12 November 2018

Sixties Power at Settle

This wonderful picture dates from the early 1960s and shows one of the powerful Black 5 locomotives of the time about to depart northbound from Settle station.

click to enlarge

The Black 5 has a full head of steam in anticipation of a tough climb up to Blea Moor and beyond, evidenced by the excess steam blowing from the safety valves.   Black 5s were the standard workhorses for stopping trains over the S&C and can still be seen hauling special charter trains to this day.

This particular locomotive was scrapped in 1967.

And a picture of Settle station in 1964.   No footbridge but the water tower looks on:







No comments:

Post a Comment

Do please leave comments. If nothing else it shows that there is somebody out there.