Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

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. As a part of the rail cutbacks in the 1960s, British Railways closed the line at the end of 1962.

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.

The Railway is hugely popular, not least with film-makers and TV producers, and the railway provides a working background for any period from Victorian times up to the present day. Over the years, the Railway has appeared in many TV and film productions including Yanks, Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Hunt, Poirot, Born and Bred, The Royal, Where the Heart Is, A Touch of Frost, Songs of Praise and many more. It is perhaps most famous for its role in the 1970 film version of Edith Nesbit's classic story The Railway Children.

Steam train services operate every weekend throughout the year and daily in summer.

Oxenhope Station

Web site: http://www.kwvr.co.uk/