Sowerby Bridge MPD in Yorkshire's Calder valley is the Lowryesque setting for this 1950 BR era photograph. Still sporting LMS livery is ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Aspinall '5' (LMS '3P') 2-4-2 Tank No. 10765. It is in company with at least three WD 2-8-0s Nos. 90406. 90620 and 90726 and two unidentified ex-L&Y '27' class 0-6-0s. Alongside, is a coal-filled Black Park Colliery wagon, a long way from it's home in Chirk, near Wrexham. It will probably never see home again as it has been 'pooled' since 1939.
10765 was built at Horwich in Jan. 1897 and was withdrawn in June 1954 as BR No. 50765.

© Stewart Goswell Collection