Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
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The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a five mile (8 km) long heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England, that runs from Keighley to Oxenhope. It connects to the main Leeds/Bradford - Skipton line at Keighley.
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History
The line was originally built in 1867 by local mill owners, but operated by the Midland Railway who owned most of the rail network in the area, and was eventually bought by the Midland.
After becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, ownership passed to British Rail following nationalisation in 1948. As a part of the rail cutbacks in the 1960s, British Rail closed the line at the end of 1962.
However a preservation society was formed who bought the line from BR and reopened it in 1968 as a heritage railway. The line is now a major tourist attraction operated entirely by volunteers and carries more than 110000 passengers every year. As such the KWVR is the only preserved railway which operates a complete branch line in its original form.
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Stations
| OS Grid Ref and map link SE … | |
| Template:Mmukscaled | Keighley |
| Template:Gbmaprim | Ingrow (West) |
| Template:Mmukscaled | Damems |
| Template:Gbmaprim | Oakworth |
| Template:Mmukscaled | Haworth |
| Template:Gbmaprim | Oxenhope |
Features
- Keighley
- Ingrow (West)
- Access to the Vintage Carriage Trust's Museum of Rail Travel
- Access to the Bahamas Locomotive Society Museum "Ingrow Loco"
- Excellent Car Parking
- Damems
- The smallest standard gauge station in Britain complete with Waiting Room, Booking Office, Signal Box & Level Crossing
- Lit entirely by gas lighting and heated entirely by coal stoves
- Currently features as "Ormston" in the BBCs Born and Bred
- Oakworth
- Famous as the set for the filming of the 1970 EMI version of "The Railway Children" featuring Jenny Agutter, Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren
- Restored to Edwardian condition, the station has never had mains electricity installed and is lit entirely by gas lamps
- Heated by upto four open coal fires in winter (around 8 months each year)
- Haworth
- Oxenhope
- New HLF supported Exibition Shed, contains locomotives and carriages not currently in use and explains their history and that of the line as a whole
- Railway shop and buffet
- Excellent Car Parking
- Bus connections to Hebden Bridge
- Gas lit platform
Locomotives
- Steam Locomotives
- BR 4-6-0 Class 4MT no. 75078
- BR 2-6-0 Class 2MT no. 78022
- BR 2-6-4T Class 4MT no. 80002
- BR 2-8-0 Austerity no. 90733
- GWR 0-6-0PT 5700 Class no. 5775
- L&Y 0-4-0ST Class 21 "Pug" no. 68 (later BR Class 0F no. 51218)
- L&Y 0-6-0 Class 25 "Ironclad" no. 957 (later BR Class 2F no. 52044)
- LNWR 0-6-2 "Coal Tank" no. 1054
- LMS 2-6-2T Class 2MT no. 41241
- LMS 4-6-0 Class 5MT no. 45212
- LMS 0-6-0 Class 4F no. 43924
- LMS 4-6-0 Class 5XP Jubilee no. 45596 "Bahamas"
- LMS 0-6-0T Class 3F "Jinty" no. 47279
- LMS 2-8-0 Class 8F no. 48431
- LNER 0-6-0ST Class J94 no. 68077
- SR 0-6-0T Class USA no. 30072
- SR 4-6-2 West Country Class no. 34092 "City of Wells"
- Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85
- USA Class S160 2-8-0 no. 5820 "Big Jim"
- Diesel Locomotives
- BR 0-6-0 Hudswell-Clarke shunter no. D2511
- BR 0-6-0 Prototype EE shunter no. D226 "Vulcan"
- BR 0-6-0 Class 08 no. 13336 (ex-08266)
- BR Bo-Bo Class 20 no. D8031 (ex-20031)
- BR Bo-Bo Class 25 no. 25059 (ex-D5209)
- Mersey Docks & Harbour Board Diesel Mechanical 0-6-0 no. 32 "Huskisson"
- Port of Bristol Port Authority Diesel Mechanical 0-6-0 no. 23 "Merlin"
- Ruston & Hornsby Diesel Electric 0-4-0 "James"
External links
- Keighley and Worth Valley website. (http://www.kwvr.co.uk/)