The long evening shadows fall over Minehead
Hopefully we shall be returning once again this year
The blog of a retired marine engineer who is old enough to remember the steam era and the joys of holiday trips in trains hauled by steam engines. Please feel free to comment or contact me on teachertalk1234@yahoo.co.uk. The blog is updated daily so please look back or follow regularly so as not to miss information and pictures
Tuesday 25 April 2017
K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Bank Holiday Weekend 29th & 30th April and 1st May 2017
No sooner has Easter passed and another holiday period starts with a 3 day full 2 train service Saturday - Monday. The weekend starts with a modified Green timetable on Saturday with a full line all day mainline diesel hauled service commencing at 09.00. This service, the first of our mainline diesel hauled days, will be in the hands of BR English Electric Class 37 locomotive 37 075. At the head of the steam hauled passenger train will be WD 2-8-0 90733.
On Sunday the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race passes up the Valley and we are operating a special all steam timetable starting at 09.30, continuing throughout the day. 90733 will be joined by BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 75078 for the Sunday services and on Monday when the Blue timetable will operate.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power is available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.
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Monday 24 April 2017
75078 now back in full service.
Ross Graham climbs aboard
Cocks open and off she goes
Passing Haworth yard
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway
Always lots to see at Bridgnorth
We shall be visiting soon now the weather id warming
K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Week 18th – 21st and weekend 22nd & 23rd April
Locomotive Roster for Week 18th – 21st and weekend 22nd & 23rd April 2017by news@kwvr |
With Easter weekend running completed we return to the pink timetable during the week and our winter green and blue timetables in operation at the weekend. All steam turns during the week and at the weekend will be in the hands of BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 75078.
The Saturday diesel turn and the first 2 on Sunday will have our Class 101 Diesel Multiple Unit running the service. On Sunday, after 2 round trips, the DMU gives way to English Electric 0-6-0 D0226 which will haul a short passenger train of suburban coaches for the remainder of the day.
The Hughes Crab 13065
L&Y designed mogul, though built at Crewe
Hughes answer to the need for goods pulling power
British Railways Standard class 4 75078
The bogie now repaired 75078 will be back in
service
A superb engine
Flying Scotsman week at the K&WVR
A couple more from the Flying Scotsman week
First trip out of Haworth Yard, taps open.
First run of the day passing Haworth Yard
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 150 years
My thanks to Paul Brunt our archivist at the K&WVRHappy 150th Birthday KWVR – 13th April 1867by news@kwvr |
Today marks the exact 150th anniversary of the opening of the original KWVR - Worth Remembering.
Our stations at Oakworth, Haworth and Oxenhope are now each 150 years old, although they were all extended in the period 1890 to 1910. You can see the original parts which are characterised by the round topped windows.
We are delighted to showcase some wonderful and evocative images from The Keighley Historical Archive, who have amassed a wonderful collection of images of the area from years gone by, and our own archivist, Paul Brunt.
The early trains were operated by the Midland Railway using 0-6-0 Well Tanks. These were all originally built as tender locomotives, but hurriedly rebuilt to tank locomotives, suitable (the MR hoped!) for the KWVR. They turned out to be low on water capacity and were replaced within a few years. The MR locomotive department had not been told by the operators that the line was approaching readiness in the autumn of 1866 so the opening was delayed whilst locomotives were hurriedly rebuilt in readiness.
76 & 96 were ready by March 1867 and one of these hauled the opening train but we do not know which. Later, in November 1867 179 and 198 arrived, and finally 216 in December. All except 96 were rebuilt back to tender locomotives; 179 in November 1881, 76 in October 1879, 198 in December 1871 and 216 in August 1881. The coaches were four wheeled, not dissimilar to the Great Central coach in the Carriage Museum at Ingrow.
It is also worth recording that Keighley station had been open for 20 years in 1867 (opening in March 1847). The original Keighley station was a temporary wooden affair and we do not know when the permanent stone built station in the ‘Leeds & Bradford Railway’s Jacobethan’ style actually opened. But it was certainly in business in mid 1848 when two of the Bronte sisters started their rail journey there for London to reveal their true identities to their publishers. Before then, they were known as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell and most people thought that they were male.
Keighley station was built by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway as a through route to Skipton and on to Colne where it met up with the East Lancashire Railway. The final section to Colne opened in September 1848, and this included a station at Foulridge which was the predecessor of a later building, subsequently moved to Ingrow on the KWVR in 1989. A new station at Keighley replaced the L & B building in the early 1880s.
Saturday 15 April 2017
KWVR Haworth wheeldrop
Austerity 90733 stood in on Thursday for the failed
BR Std 4 75073
The wheel drop at Haworth yard has just been
completely over hauled and inspected by the insurers
It was originally at Hammerton St depot in Bradford
It was badly waterlogged the Christmas before
last in the floods we suffered
However after over haul and survey it is now back
in action
I am told it was designed to take a Sterling 8ft
It had many A1 A2 and A3's during its time at
Hammerton St as they cam over from Copley
Hill for wheel, axle and bearing work
Undoubtedly an asset to the railway
75078 is shunted over the drop for the bogie work
BR Standard 75078 over the wheeldrop
75078 had to come out of service on Thursday
A fitness to run exam showed a worn bogie pad
So the engine went over the wheel drop and the
bogie was lowered about four inches to remove
the pads and replace them
It goes to show how important such inspections
are
The engine was pronounced fit again after the new
pads had been fitted and the bogie lifted back and
secured
Wednesday 12 April 2017
BR Standard class 4 4-6-0 75078
British Railways Standard Class 4 75078 is in
charge for this weeks daily trains.
Outside Haworth Shed this morning K&WVR
Monday 10 April 2017
Flying Scotsman, welcome to Haworth MPD
Flying Scotsman steamed from York with its support
coach
Then preparation began for her haul up the Carlisle
Excellent support crew from the NRM
They were not selfish of their charge as we
looked all over her
Many thanks to them and the NRM
Flying Scotsman Oxenhope bound
Passing Haworth yard limits bound for Oxenhope
I know many have reveled in the experience
Riddles Austerity 90733 controls the decent
90733 controlling the decent from Oxenhope to
Keighley
With 8 coaches on Flaying Scotsman could not
run round at Oxenhope
Flying Scotsman at Haworth
As with any engine preparation must be careful
Scotsman is here being prepared at Haworth for the
days work ahead.
Flying Scotsman
Flying Scotsman accelerates the special out of Haworth
station passing my vantage point in Haworth yard
It has been a very busy week indeed on the Keighley
and Worth Valley Railway
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