Members of IHEEM’s Yorkshire and London Branches, accompanied by a number of family members, recently enjoyed an enjoyable Saturday out on board the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) steam train in West Yorkshire, courtesy of Yorkshire Branch treasurer, Ian Davies, who is a volunteer at the steam railway, having been a regular visitor ‘from the age of 13 or 14’.
The KWVR is a standard gauge branch line which joins the national railway network at Keighley, and runs for five miles up the Worth Valley to Oxenhope. It is perhaps most famous for its role in the 1970 film version of Edith Nesbit’s story ‘The Railway Children’. Pictured (left to right), alongside one of the locomotives, on the day of the London/ Yorkshire Branch visit, are: Ian Davies, and his daughter, Amy; John Crawford, chair, London Branch; Ian’s Davies’s partner, Debbie Fisher; Alan Gascoine, vice-chair, London Branch; Steve Batson, events marketing, membership, and Branch website officer, Yorkshire Branch, and son, Aaron, and Alison Ryan, chair, Yorkshire Branch. The photograph was taken by the London Branch’s Bill Askew, a member of IHEEM’s Professional Development Committee. After joining the steam train at Keighley, the party travelled to Oxenhope, and then to Haworth, home of the Bronté sisters, where a number of the party, which also included several guests, were able to spend an hour looking around the steam railway operator’s locomotive works, while the remainder of the group had a little time to tour the village.
