This charming picture contains a wealth of interesting detail. It is taken at Delph cross roads when it was exactly that. Some years after the withdrawal of the passenger service to Delph the stationmaster's house (visible on the right) was demolished on 4th June 1963 and the the land sold to the Ministry of Transport nine days later. The line continued to supply coal to the nearby Bailey Mill until the following December.
The sale to the MoT allowed the junction to be re-modelled in its present form as a staggered cross roads. The bus is an ECW-bodied Bristol L5G, very common throughout the country but less so in Saddleworth, North Western only running a few from Oldham depot. I have to thank Bernard Halliwell for telling me that the destination blinds originally showed New Hay, close examination shows that it has been crudely altered!
