CRL - Community Rail Lancashire

Bentham Line Old Photographs

1880s Midland Railway 0-6-0 Nos. 564 locomotive awaiting departure 1890s

 

1900 Midland Railway horsebox beside the cattle pens

 

1930s Eastbound train approaching platform one

 

1950s train approaching Bentham from the east

 

Bentham Station in the early 1950s, shortly before demolition

 

The original ‘mock tudor’ station and the old footbridge

 

1956 BR 0-6-0 locomotive 43295 passing the new station building

 

D291 passing through Bentham in September 1971

 

Bentham Station decorated for the Diamond Jubilee, June 2012