Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
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.
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 1924, ownership passed to British Rail following nationalisation in 1948. As a part of the rail cutbacks in the 1960s, British Rail closed the line in 1962.
However a preservation society was formed who bought the line from BR and operated the line as a tourist railway. As such the KWVR is the only preserved railway which operates a complete branch line in its original form.
Stations
| OS Grid Ref and map link SE … | |
| Vorlage:Mmukscaled | Keighley |
| 056 397 | Ingrow (West) |
| Vorlage:Mmukscaled | Damems |
| 039 383 | Oakworth |
| Vorlage:Mmukscaled | Haworth |
| 032 354 | Oxenhope |
Features
- At Ingrow (West) Station there is the Museum of Rail Travel.
- Damems is claimed to be the smallest station in Britain.
- The railway and the station at Oakworth were the location for the film The Railway Children, based on the book by Edith Nesbit.
- Haworth is famous for being the home of the Bronte sisters.
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
- GWR 0-6-0PT 5700 Class no. 5775
- LMS 2-6-2T Class 2MT no. 41241
- LMS 4-6-0 Class 5MT no. 45212
- 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"
- 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
- BR Bo-Bo Class 20 no. D8031
- BR Bo-Bo Class 25 no. D5209