A quick visit to the Keighly and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR). It was to be a trip to Ingrow station to see the carriage museum but there was time for a there and back on the train.
Ingrow Carriage Museum is a nice little place with 2 rows of carriages and in between them is a platform so you can go into or look into the carriages. Most of them are early 20th century and have very plush seating.
On entering the museum there’s a shop with a coffee machine and a few chocolates. The shop manly second hand contains railway books and models.
There’s a small works at the back of the museum as shown below. To one side of the museum is a second hand store of old railway magazines. All filed in order and covering trams and models.
My train arrives. 52044, an attractive ex Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway freight loco built in 1887 by Beyer Peacock in Manchester. See the KWVR website, linked below, for fuller information.
The crew watching out:
The single track railway has a passing point before Oakworth. Here we’re stationary waiting for 78022 to pass. This loco was built at Darlington in 1954 as a ‘Standard’ BR design based on the LMS Ivatt loco and ended its service days at Lostock Hall near Preston in 1967. See the KWVR website for fuller information.
Oakworth Station. Famous for being the setting for the film the Railway Children. On this line there is Keighley, a larger station, followed by Ingrow West, Oakworth, Haworth, Oxenhope. The last four stations looking very similar. Ingrow West station building was transferred from Foulridge when the Skipton to Colne line closed.
At Oakworth enactors create a days past look:
At Oxenhope the train reverses and returns with the loco backwards. Oxenhope has a carriage that works as a cafe. Plus a shed containing locos and carriages. One set of carriages is the plush Pullman style business set that operated between Manchester and Blackpool via Lytham St Annes.
So ended the trip with the same train back to Ingrow. It’s a great little railway. The main engine shed is at Haworth, of Bronte fame. There are tours round the shed, worth looking it up. Here’s the KWVR website. https://kwvr.co.uk/