Caption:

One of the powerful Cravens-built 2-car DMUs of Class 105,

which boasted both cars being powered to deal with Pennine gradients, heads away south from Preston station, trailing exhaust smoke, with a train for Colne which was, by this time, the terminus of a line which originally ran through to Skipton. It was reached via Blackburn, Accrington and Rose Grove the latter being the famous steam MPD that lasted until the very end of that era.