Vintage Carriages

Vintage Carriages Trust

Everything on this page & many other contributions throughout the site, kindly donated by Paul Holroyd of
Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT). The trust owns and operates the Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, near Keighley,
West Yorkshire BD21 5AX
website - www.ingrowrailwaycentre.co.uk

See also : Multiple Units Transperience Keighley & Worth valley Railway

Anniversary Exhibition opening (22-03-08) : Lost Railways

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway was opened on June 29th 1968.
The VCT is staging a special exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the reopening. Masters of ceremony, Chairman Mr Trevor England & the Mayor of Keighley, Councillor Brian Hudson residing over the proceedings, a couple of sound blokes I thought.
The exhibition is open every day until the end of October. See the Keighley News article.

Excursion handbills
1961	1954	1962	1952	1952	1952

Time Tables

Calder Valley time table 1962

Trans Pennine time table

Keighley Oxenhope 1958

Osmondthorpe & Penda's Way

Air Valley Sundays 1958

Bradford Huddersfield Penistone 1962

Misc

Queensbury Lines

Queensbury 1955 Line Closure notice & alternate bus services

Cleckheaton Central shunting records 1958

Until the Beeching axe, Cleckheaton Central had a busy goods yard. Fortunately, a number of Freight train and shunting records survive from 1958, covering the periods February 24-26, April 1-May 30 , August 2-31 and October 2-13.

The example shown is a fascinating historical document, showing the arrival and the departure times at Cleckheaton,
the locomotives involved: nos 52461, 44485, 90397 and 90124 as well as the origin points and final destinations of the trains,

and the number of wagons detached at Cleckheaton Central.
The 06.00 from Mirfield to Cleckheaton which arrived at 06.40 consisisted of 30 wagons , while 14 wagons were detached from the Sowerby to Low Moor train which arrived at Cleckheaton at 12.10

Fares to Kings Cross 1958

Single fares to London King's Cross, September 1958. Sadly, a number of stations on the list succumbed to the Beeching axe.

Principal services 1958

Principal services from West Yorkshire to London, September 1958. Note the variety of routes: Bradford Exchange- London Marylebone, Bradford Forster Square - London St. Pancras, Leeds Central - London King's Cross. Leeds City - London St. Pancras.
If you wanted to be in London for an early morning business appointment, you had a choice of 3 early morning trains: the 02.32 sleeping car train from Leeds City deposited you at London St Pancras at 07.20, while the 0322 from City arrived at St Pancras at 09.20. The 0730 from Leeds Central arrived at King's Cross at 11.02
Many aspects of our railway system have improved out of all recognition since the 1950s, and the December 2007 timetable shows 32 through trains between Leeds City and London King's Cross on weekdays.
The 05.05 from Leeds arrives at King's Cross at 07.30, the 0530 arrives at 07.53.
The 06.05 arrives at 08.34 and the 0640 arrives at 08.48

Queen Street railway museum, York. (nd) : Harry Naylor Holroyd
Inside the old Queen Street railway museum, York. Unknown date.
The museum had been opened in 1922 by the North Eastern Railway

Tickets
Alan S Bagot collection :

2	3	4	5	7
8	9	10	11	12
13	15	16

Signs & Boards

Low Moor signal box boards : Paul Holroyd 18-03-06
Boards from Low Moor No 2 East
and No 5 signalboxes,

Mirfield totem : Paul Holroyd 18-03-06
currently on display in the Museum

John Stephenson & totem from Cleckheaton Central. see Mirfield - Low moor

Signal box board 31-10-06 : Paul Holroyd
Signal box board from Cleckheaton South, currently on loan to the Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow.

Heckmondwike Spen signalbox sign (23-01-07) : Paul Nigel Kirkup website www.ingrowrailwaycentre.co.uk
An original sign from Heckmondwike Spen signalbox rests on a bogie from Bulleid-designed carriage no. 1469
at the Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow, prior to being placed on display.

Totem from Heckmondwike Central (18-11-07) Paul Holroyd
On display at the National Railway Museum, York.

Spen Valley box boards (07-02-07) : Paul Holroyd
Now on display at Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow Railway Centre.

Bradford Exchange signs (04-02-07) : Paul Holroyd see Bradford
Signs from Bradford Exchange, currently on loan to the Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow

Running In board (12-04-08) : Paul Holroyd see Bradford
Running In board from Bradford Exchange, awaiting display at the Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow Railway Centre

Bradford Keighley Poster