More pictures - Yorkshire
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 6:37 pmI love the internet - you can bore people rigid with your holiday pictures without having to invite them round first! After the Isle of Man, we turned left at Liverpool instead of right and ended up in North Yorkshire. As always, there were steam trains involved ... this was taken at Oxenhope station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
The village of Haworth, one of the stations along the line, was having a 1940s carnival weekend to mark the anniversary of VE day and the railway joined in with a couple of WW2 locos in service, bunting everywhere and costumed re-enactors mingling with the tourists.
A couple of 1940s passengers wait at Haworth:
The River Worth, sparkling in the sunshine near Keighley:
Another scenic bit of Yorkshire, taken from the train:
The station-master gives the Right Away to the last train of the day at Keighley:
This is the Embsay to Bolton Abbey railway, just outside Skipton. A former Coal Board saddle tank loco waits to be called on to its train:
Here it is, waiting with the lunch-time train at Bolton Abbey:
This lovely little building is Bolton Abbey station, restored and rebuilt to its original 1888 appearance by the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway Trust and officially re-opened 110 years on, in 1998:
Some big-sky scenery - sunlight and shade over the Pennines near Skipton:
A quiet corner of Gargrave, the pretty village where we stayed during our visit to Yorkshire:
Bridge over the river Aire at Gargrave - looks as if it was designed for an altogether bigger river!
The village of Haworth, one of the stations along the line, was having a 1940s carnival weekend to mark the anniversary of VE day and the railway joined in with a couple of WW2 locos in service, bunting everywhere and costumed re-enactors mingling with the tourists.
A couple of 1940s passengers wait at Haworth:
The River Worth, sparkling in the sunshine near Keighley:
Another scenic bit of Yorkshire, taken from the train:
The station-master gives the Right Away to the last train of the day at Keighley:
This is the Embsay to Bolton Abbey railway, just outside Skipton. A former Coal Board saddle tank loco waits to be called on to its train:
Here it is, waiting with the lunch-time train at Bolton Abbey:
This lovely little building is Bolton Abbey station, restored and rebuilt to its original 1888 appearance by the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway Trust and officially re-opened 110 years on, in 1998:
Some big-sky scenery - sunlight and shade over the Pennines near Skipton:
A quiet corner of Gargrave, the pretty village where we stayed during our visit to Yorkshire:
Bridge over the river Aire at Gargrave - looks as if it was designed for an altogether bigger river!
