This rare colour photo of Sawdon is from 1977 and shows the goods warehouse in the yard still recognisable with the station building behind.
For a time after closure, the goods warehouse had been used as a petrol station. The foreground in this photograph was the forecourt.
This photograph is displayed with kind permission from David Hodgson.
David has some pages about the Forge Valley Railway on his own web site, which can be viewed here: https://davidohodgson.com/forge-valley-line/