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

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