L & Y Engines at work – Part I

Wednesday 2 March saw the first Liverpool-based face to face meeting since last November.  18 attendees were highly entertained by Paul Shackcloth who showed photographs of L and Y Engines. The photographs covered the period from the 1890s to the end of steam, showing many stations and sheds that no longer exist and they were captured by many photographers of the past.  Paul covered the area around Manchester and its hinterland and travelled on into West Yorkshire showing almost all of the different classes of steam engines that worked on the L and Y throughout those years.  We witnessed a variety of passenger and freight workings and also saw much of the infrastructure and platform furniture of the time.

Bearing in mind that many of the photographs were over a hundred years old the quality could not be faulted.  The equipment that the photographers had in those days was nothing like what is available today but the results were amazing.

It was a very nostalgic afternoon and we look forward to seeing part 2 later in the year.