Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T 41241 at Haworth station

The Platform, Oxenhope Railway Station, terminus of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (photo by Nigel Homer, 2006)

Damems Junction signal box

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a five-mile (eight-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. Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1357 KB)by Alan Harris, File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1357 KB)by Alan Harris, File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 227113_20f9b0cdThePlatformOxenhopeRailwayStationTerminusOfTheKeighley&WorthValleyRailway(NigelHomer)Aug2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 227113_20f9b0cdThePlatformOxenhopeRailwayStationTerminusOfTheKeighley&WorthValleyRailway(NigelHomer)Aug2006. ... A steam train passing a traditional signal box, seen here at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire, England. ... A steam train passing a traditional signal box, seen here at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire, England. ... A scene on a heritage railway. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... Statistics Population: 49,453 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE058412 Administration District: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance... Oxenhope, West Yorkshire Oxenhope is a village in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, near Keighley. ... Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service... Statistics Population: 293,717 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE165325 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Fire and rescue... Statistics Population: 14,313 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD986516 Administration District: Craven Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Ambulance service: Yorkshire Post office...

History

The line was built in 1867 by local mill owners, but operated by the Midland Railway, which owned most of the rail network in the area, and was eventually bought by the Midland. 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ... The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922. ...

After becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, ownership passed to British Railways following nationalisation in 1948. As a part of the rail cutbacks in the 1960s, British Railways closed the line at the end of 1962. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

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 110,000 passengers every year. The KWVR is the only preserved railway that operates a complete branch line in its original form. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Duplication

The line and its bridges and tunnels including a deviation were built as single track but with provision for duplication, should the need arise. A single track railway A single track railway is one where traffic in both directions shares the same track. ... A BNSF Railway intermodal train passes some maintenance of way equipment on the double track mainline in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. ...

Stations

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Features

• Keighley
  • Mainline Connections to Leeds, Bradford, Skipton, Carlisle, Lancaster, Morecambe and London King's Cross
  • Railway Shop and Buffet
  • Turntable
  • Picnic Area
  • Station restored to BR 1950s condition complete with cast-iron platform canopy
• Ingrow (West)
  • Access to the Vintage Carriages Trust's Museum of Rail Travel
  • Access to the Bahamas Locomotive Society Museum "Ingrow Loco"
  • Car parking
• Damems
  • The smallest standard-gauge railway station in Britain, complete with Waiting Room, Booking Office, Signal Box & Level Crossing
  • Lit by gas and heated by coal stoves
  • Featured as "Ormston" in the BBC's Born and Bred
• Oakworth
  • Famous as the location 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 is lit by gas lamps
  • Heated by up to four open coal fires in winter (around eight months each year)
• Haworth
  • Railway shop
  • Picnic area and engine shed viewing area
  • Access to Haworth Village and the Brontë Parsonage
  • Gas lit platform
  • An example of a 1950s country station
• Oxenhope
  • New Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Exhibition 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
  • Car parking
  • Bus connections to Hebden Bridge
  • Gas-lit platform, car park and waiting room

Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service... Statistics Population: 293,717 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE165325 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Fire and rescue... Statistics Population: 14,313 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD986516 Administration District: Craven Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Ambulance service: Yorkshire Post office... Carlisle is a city in the extreme northwest of England, some 16 km from the border with Scotland. ... Statistics Population: 45,952 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD475615 Administration District: City of Lancaster Shire county: Lancashire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lancashire Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Lancashire Constabulary Ambulance service: North West Post office and telephone... Morecambe is a resort town in the Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... A small turntable at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, CA. In rail terminology, a turntable is a device used to turn railroad rolling stock. ... BR or Br may be: BR Beautiful Revolution, a Korean cosmetic company BR Distribuidora, the fuel retail division of Petrobras BR Korea, ice cream company Baskin-Robbins in South Korea BR postal area, a group of eight postal districts in southeast London Bromine (Br), atomic number 35 BR is the... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... Vintage Carriages Trust is a charity based just north of Ingrow (West} station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire, England. ... As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the inner sides of the rails) that should be used. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Born and Bred is a light drama serial created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, which appeared on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The Railway Children is a childrens book by Edith Nesbit. ... Jenny Agutter from the film Logans Run. ... Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Mec in Hampstead, London on 17 September 1920) is a popular English-born actress who appeared in the film Genevieve (1954). ... Bernard Cribbins as Captain Michael in Space: 1999 episode Brian the Brain (1976). ... Sally Thomsett (born April 3, 1950 in Sussex, England) is a British actress. ... Gary Warren (born 5 July 1954 in London) was a well-known English child actor, most famous for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... The Brontë sisters, painted by their brother, Branwell c. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ... Statistics Population: approx 4,500 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD993273 Administration District: Calderdale Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Ambulance service: Yorkshire Post office and telephone Post town...

Locomotives

• Steam Locomotives

Operational Engines

• • BR 2-6-4T Class 4MT no. 80002
  • L&Y 0-6-0 Class 25 "Ironclad" no. 957 (later BR Class 2F no. 52044)
  • LMS 2-6-2T Class 2MT no. 41241
  • LMS 0-6-0T Class 3F "Jinty" no. 47279
  • Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85

Locomotives under Overhaul or Restoration 80152 at Nine Elms MPD, 1965. ... The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was one of the major British railway companies which existed before the 1923 Grouping; although in 1922 it had already entered into a working agreement with the London and North Western Railway. ... Preserved No. ... The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... Preserved on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T is a class of light mixed traffic steam engine introduced in 1946. ... Preserved 47493 on the Spa Valley Railway with a demonstration freight train. ... The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. ...

• • BR 4-6-0 Class 4MT no. 75078
  • BR 2-8-0 Austerity no. 90733
  • LMS 0-6-0 Class 4F no. 43924
  • LNER 0-6-0ST Class J94 no. 68077
  • SR 4-6-2 West Country Class no. 34092 "City of Wells"
  • USATC S160 Class 2-8-0 no. 5820 "Big Jim"

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• • BR 2-6-0 Class 2MT no. 78022
  • GWR 0-6-0PT 5700 Class no. 5775
  • L&Y 0-4-0ST Class 21 "Pug" no. 68 (later BR Class 0F no. 51218)
  • LNWR 0-6-2 "Coal Tank" no. 1054
  • LMS 4-6-0 Class 5XP Jubilee no. 45596 "Bahamas"
  • LMS 2-8-0 Class 8F no. 48431
  • SR 0-6-0T Class USA no. 30072

• Diesel Locomotives

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• • BR 0-6-0 Hudswell Clarke (British Rail Class D2/12) shunter no. D2511
  • BR 0-6-0 Class 08 no. 13336 (ex-08266)
  • BR Bo-Bo Class 20 no. D8031 (ex-20031)
  • Port of Bristol Port Authority Diesel Mechanical 0-6-0 no. 23 "Merlin"

Diesel Locomotives under repair A typical Hudswell Clarke Diesel Locomotive from the 1950s Hudswell Clarke was an engineering and locomotive building company in Leeds, founded in 1860. ... British Rail Class D2/12 was a locomotive commissioned by British Rail in England. ... A switcher (the general United States usage; common British terminology is shunter, while the Pennsylvania Railroad used shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains any great distance but rather for assembling a train ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has... D3312 at Kings Cross, 1963 in British Railways green livery 08 910 at Carlisle, 1975 in British Rail blue livery. ... D8036 at Euston in 1963 in original green livery without yellow warning panels. ...

• • BR 0-6-0 Prototype EE shunter no. D226 "Vulcan"
  • BR Bo-Bo Class 25 no. 25059 (ex-D5209)
  • Mersey Docks & Harbour Board Diesel Mechanical 0-6-0 no. 32 "Huskisson"
  • Ruston & Hornsby Diesel Electric 0-4-0 "James"

• Diesel Multiple Units
  • BR Class 108 unit 50928+51565 (Operational)
  • BR Railbuses nos. 79962 and 79964 (79964 is operational, 79962 is under overhaul)
  • BR Class 101 unit 51803+51189 (Undergoing Overhaul)

• Notes
  • 'Black Five' no.45212 is operational but currently based on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, as part of a deal which will see it running there until 5 years into it's 10-year boiler certificate.
  • 'Coal Tank' no.1054 is currently undergoing overhaul at Ingrow. Once it's owning group have completed the repairs, attention will be focused on returning "Bahamas" to traffic.
  • The Austerity 2-8-0 no.90733 will be the next engine to return to steam on the line. It is currently anticipated that this will be during February 2007, when there is a good chance that the loco will 'run-in' during the Steam Gala.
  • Other engines in line for a return to steam before the end of the decade are no.75078, no.34092 "City Of Wells", and no.43924, which was the first engine salvaged from Barry Scrapyard in South Wales to be returned to steam on a heritage line, back in the 1970s.
  • Class 101 vehicle No 51803 is operational but out of service awaiting a repaint in BR blue livery, 51189's interior and mechanical restoration is nearing completion and it to is awaiting a reapaint. The unit will hopefully be ready for service in 2007 allowing the 108 set to be withdrawn for repairs.

D0226 and D0227 were two prototype diesel shunting locomotives built in 1956 by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to demonstrate its wares to British Railways. ... Description The British Rail Class 25 diesel locomotives, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, were built from 1961. ... Ruston is the former name of an engine builder in Lincoln, England, UK. It is responsible for Rusty in the Thomas the tank engine series. ... Class 108 DMU, nos. ... British Rail produced a variety of Railbuses as a means both of building new rolling stock cheaply, and to provide services on lightly-used lines economically. ... Class 101, no. ...

Use In Film and Television

The line and its stations has been used numerous period film and television productions including films "The Railway Children" (1970) and "Yanks". The Railway Children is a childrens book by Edith Nesbit. ... Yanks is a 1979 John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, Oldham, England. ...

External links

• Keighley and Worth Valley website.
• Ingrow Railway Centre website