Just over one year after closure of the Holcombe Brook branch to passengers a RCTS railtour passes Sunnywood Halt (SD 785125) on its way back to Bury behind L&YR Radial 2-4-2T 50855, renumbered but still in LMS livery. The Six Bells Junction website says this was the Manchester & District Railtour and the train engine was another Radial tank 50644 but 50855 banked the train up this branch and led it down again. Tottington's mills can be seen above the train, the large building on the right being next to the station.
Location: Sunnywood Halt
Original line: Bury and Tottington District Railway
Photographer: W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett)
Contact photographer: W A Camwell Collection (Courtesy Mark Bartlett)
Date: 26/07/1953
Image number: 21364