Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Todmorden

Stanier Jubilee 4-6-0 45699 Galatea as 45562 Alberta with the Cotton Mill Express. Here she is seen climbing to Copy Pit on the 1 in 128 gradient between Hall Royd Junction & Stansfield Hall Junction.

The last steam banker on British Railways, Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48519 of Rose Grove, prepares to buffer up to a freight train to bank it on the climb from Stansfield Hall to Copy Pit summit. My life-long interest in railways really started not far from here while eating fish and chips one evening in April 1968 when I heard the banker (without knowing what it was) thrashing up the hill in the darkness. A bit late in the day because steam ended on BR 4 months later.