This weekend saw me visiting the Embsay Bolton Abbey line of the Yorkshire Dales Railway. Set in superb countryside a mile and a half from Skipton. Embsay station is the headquarters of the Railway and so a busy place. The main loco sheds are situated here and there are some interesting static exhibits on show.
A very typical LMS country station, Embsay hosts a very good shop and station buffet along with an excellent second hand book and magazine shop selling donated items at very reasonable prices, and example being magazines which sell for eight for the pound. I picked up four quids worth of last years Steam Heritage and Steam Railways plus a few books into the bargain.
The station looking West towards Skipton and hopefully a link eventually, it is tantalisingly close, a matter of yards.
This is the eastern end of the station looking towards Bolton Abbey and the engines sheds lay to the left and storage sidings to the right. The main line is single tracked.
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