The Railway Photography of J. Wallace Sutherland

In the 1950's 60's and 70's Mr Sutherland of Davenport took a large number of photograps of local railways.  Many of his pictures feature locations on the Buxton line including Furness Vale.

The Davenport Station website http://www.sutherland.davenportstaion.org.uk/index features a vast collection of his images both colour and black and white.  We include a small section below:

FURNESS VALE

A train departs Furness Vale for Manchester in 1962

Furness Vale signal box and level crossing 1978

Approaching Furness Vale from the north showing the crossover and the remains of Knowles siding June 1960

The view from Station Road in 1978

 

A Buxton bound goods train 1962


GOWHOLE

Scenes at Gowhole Sidings, February 1968

 NEW MILLS NEWTOWN

A busy scene in February 1962

A goods train passes in July 1959

DISLEY and MIDDLEWOOD

A wintry Disley in February 1963 as Buxton train arrives

Norbury Level Crossing in 1956 when passenger trains were still steam hauled

Middlewood still had all of its station facilities in 1968 A single oil lamp the only illumination

September 1968, a train arrives from Manchester

WHALEY BRIDGE

Shunting in 1964

October 1958

March 1969 train arriving from Buxton

Leaving Shalcross Sidings September 1964

A March 1961 view of Shalcross Sidings

By August 1965 Shalcross had become disused. Horwich End Gasworks in the background

CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH SOUTH

A 1959 view of the station

1969

BUXTON

Under the station canopy in July 1956

Buxton Station once had a bookstall

A train waits at the Ashbourne line platform June 1963. The Midland Station is in the background

Buxton Midland Station

Higher Buxton goods yard in 1959. There had once been a little used passenger station here.

                            MAYFIELD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mayfield Station in 1960. Then the Manchester terminus for Buxton trains