Taken from my favourite spot and the fav of others
too. On special days the path down the side can be
pretty crowded
The KWVR shares Keighley station with Network
Rail of course and is the railways mainline connection
The Worth Valley line begins with a steady uphill
grade from the platform and climbs all the way to
the next stop at Ingrow
So the hauling of standard BR coaches needs a little
power
In my young days the platforms were shared with
trains running to Cullingworth, Denhome, Thornton
and onto Queensbury then to either Bradford or
Halifax on what were known as the Queensbury
lines
The passenger services were as I have said shared.
However goods traffic was not and the Great Northern
goods yard can be seen here, now a timber and
builders merchants. The lines separated just
below Ingrow at Great Northern Junction
The great northern goods traffic had a steeper grade
get it low enough to pass under the KWV line just a
little further up than the train passing down here
The popularity of the path down the side of the railway
is that locomotives having brought their trains into
Keighley station have to run around and the cross
over is right by the side of the path, loco's
therefore pose nicely for we picture takers
Here BR Standard class four tank 80002
waits for the points to be changed to run
back down onto it's train.
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