Over the 2 days of the weekend, BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 75078 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 once again providing the second steam service for the third week in succession, on Sunday.
The morning weekend diesel service and the mid-week diesel railbus service will be in the hands of the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.
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Friday, 30 September 2016
K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Weekend 1st & 2nd October and Wednesday 5th October 2016
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
K&WVR Autumn Steam Spectacular
Autumn Steam Spectacular - Friday 7th - Saturday 9th October 2016
The stage is set with TWO visiting locomotives and all the home fleet looking in good fettle in time for the 2016 Autumn Steam Spectacular. With most of the pieces of the jigsaw in place the Passenger Timetables have been released and can be viewed on the main website.
In addition we know that many of our enthusiast readers have been chomping at the bit for the Working Timetable and this is now available to download - Working Timetables.
After so many setbacks in recent times, we are excited at the prospect of welcoming everyone to what promises to be the best Keighley & Worth Valley Railway for some considerable years.
Monday, 26 September 2016
Black Five 45428 ladies in charge
45428 had significant female manning
yesterday which is always a pleasure
to see
A lady driver and a trainee lady fireman out
of sight
Just goes to show it wan't only little boys that
wanted to be engine drivers.
Good on yer ladies and thank you for a very
pleasant ride
North Yorkshire Moors Railway yesterday Sun 25th Sept
Black five 45428.
Named in preservation after the Bishop who was
also a famous Railway photographer
Dedicated to Bishop Eric Treacy
Thursday, 22 September 2016
K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Weekend 24th & 25th September and Wednesday 28th September 2016
Over the 2 days of the weekend, WD 2-8-0 90733 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 providing the second steam service for the second week in succession on Sunday.
Saturday sees the last of the big diesel Saturdays when we will have a 2 train service with steam on one and one of our mainline diesels on the other. For this last service, English Electric Class 20 20 031 will be at the sharp. On Sunday the Class 101 diesel will be doing the honours on the early morning service.
Mid-week is the Wednesday diesel railbus service when a full line service operates with the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.
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Over the 2 days of the weekend, WD 2-8-0 90733 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 providing the second steam service for the second week in succession on Sunday.
Saturday sees the last of the big diesel Saturdays when we will have a 2 train service with steam on one and one of our mainline diesels on the other. For this last service, English Electric Class 20 20 031 will be at the sharp. On Sunday the Class 101 diesel will be doing the honours on the early morning service.
Mid-week is the Wednesday diesel railbus service when a full line service operates with the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.
London and North Western Railway Coal Tank Engine
It is a superb spot at Keighley as the engine runs
forward for the points change and run back down
onto its train.
We are very lucky to have the coal tank and thanks
to the Bahamas Locomotive Society
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
9F 92203 'Black Prince'
Thanks to David Shepherd
His rescue of 92203 was in the vanguard of steam
preservation
Seen here at Holt on the North Norfolk Railway
Thankfully one of a number that have been preserved
There's a fire in the hole
Southern Railways N15 'Sir Lamiel' Robert Urie and Richard Maunsell
Here seen at the Great Central Railway on my visit
three weeks ago. Part of the National Collection
now preserved and resident at Loughborough.
| Leading dia. | 3 feet 1 inch (0.940 m) |
|---|---|
| Driver dia. | 6 feet 7 inches (2.007 m) |
| Length |
66 feet 5
3⁄4 inches (20.263 m)
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| Loco weight | 80 long tons 19 cwt (181,300 lb or 82.2 t) |
| Fuel type | Coal |
| Boiler pressure | 200 psi (1.38 MPa) |
| Cylinders | Two, outside |
| Cylinder size |
20
1⁄2 in × 28 in (520 mm × 710 mm)
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Southern Railway 777 Sir Lamiel is an N15 “King Arthur” class 4-6-0 steam locomotive built for the Southern Railway by the North British Locomotive Company in June 1925, and withdrawn from service in October 1961. The locomotive is named after a fictional minor Knight of the Round Table named Lamiel of Cardiff. Lamiel is mentioned in Book XIX of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, where it is said he was "a great lover".
Many thanks to Wikepedia for the above
LMS Derby 4F as the Devonian
Wearing the headboard of a famous train I knew well
4F 43924 arrives at Ingrow.
Must have lost its way, Devon is South
A lovely re-creation.
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Midland Railway stations. This is Ingrow
In the winter the fire is always welcoming
Very Victorian
Maybe a little austere
The LNWR Coal tank and the Taff Vale Tank
They made a superb pairing early this year
They have both been out this year on the Vintage carriage days
Monday, 19 September 2016
Keighley and Worth Valley, volunteers one and all
The railway depends on volunteers
All do the work for the love of the railways and
the wish to preserve in some living way a little
of the past
The support they need from you is to visit them and
travel on the trains, enter the time machine.
Loughborough Great Central Railway
Like a trip back in time.
Our preserved railways offer a sort of time machine.
As we remember it
Where time has stood still
Kept immaculately clean and tidy and all by volunteers.
Friday, 16 September 2016
A timeless LMS scene, Midland 4F awaits at Oxenhope.
A scene that could easily have been the 1930's
40's and 50's. Maybe the shop sign gives it away.
A timeless scene, not from the long ago past but
just last Friday as the train from Keighley arrived
at Oxenhope. Passengers gone it now awaits the
new passengers for the return. The crew take a
well earned break over lunch.
Thursday, 15 September 2016
K&WVR Autumn steam gala update
Having earlier announced the first guest locomotive for the 2016 Autumn Steam Spectacular, SR Re-built Light Pacific 34053 'Sir Keith Park', we are delighted to announce a second guest locomotive in the shape of Great Western Manor Class 4-6-0 7822 'Foxcote Manor'. After a number of setbacks in previous Galas, the KWVR is, at last, looking forward to putting on quite a show.
7822 'Foxcote Manor'
7822's normal residency is on the Llangollen Railway in Central Wales and is the pride and joy of the Foxcote Manor Society to whom we are grateful for allowing us to showcase their locomotive over the 3 day Gala.
Locomotive No. 7822 "Foxcote Manor" is a Manor class locomotive, designed by Charles Collett of the Great Western Railway and built by British Railways at Swindon Works in 1950 to a design dating back to the late 1930s. These locomotives were designed with a relatively light axle loading to replace life expired types at work on the inclines of Wales.
Like many locomotives, at the end of steam, 7822 was sent to Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. However in 1972, like many of its stablemates at Barry, a Society was formed to save her for a future in British preservation.
34053 'Sir Keith Park'
34053 operates on the Severn Valley Railway in Shropshire and comes to the Railway courtesy of Southern Locomotives Ltd who own 7 locomotives, 5 of which, including 34053, are members of the SR Light Pacific, Battle of Britain and West Country classes of locomotive, both in original and re-built form.
These locomotives were introduced in 1945 by the Southern Railway to a design by Oliver Bulleid to a design that was light enough to operate almost anywhere on the Southern Railway. As built they incorporated the same novel features most noticeably chain-driven valve-gear, inside motion enclosed in an oil bath and 'air-smoothed' casing such as can be seen on 34092 'City of Wells'.
Following the conversion of the visually similar Merchant Navy locos, the decision was taken to rebuild the Battle of Britain and West Country classes into more conventional locomotives. The approaching demise of Southern steam saw the rebuilding program halted but not before 34053 had been converted to its more conventional outline. 34053's end came in 1966, like 7822, being despatched to Woodham's scrapyard.
Bought in 1979 by a private individual, it was not until 1984 that it left Barry and eventual ownership by Southern Locomotives Ltd. and subsequent restoration to working order.
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