Fifteen months after closure and over two years after electric services ceased this message was still displayed on the shelter at Sunnywood Halt in July of 1953. The wooden halt had opened in 1905, in conjunction with a new steam railmotor service, and so its working life was only 47 years.
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: 21683