Full steam ahead for festival of transport (From Keighley News)

Full steam ahead for festival of transport

2:10pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

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A trip back in time is on offer to people during the second Keighley Festival of Transport.

This Sunday’s event at Ingrow Railway Station comes on the first day of the fortnight-long Keighley Festival. The transport event is organised by Keighley Bus Museum Trust and hosted by the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Trust chairman Graham Mitchell promised a spectacular event enabling people to see many forms of transport in one place.

Attractions range from heritage diesel trains and buses from the 1960s, to steam trains and carriages from the 1890s.

Mr Mitchell said: “The public will have interactive access to a veritable cornucopia of vintage buses, cars and trains along the whole five-mile length of the Worth Valley.”

At the Ingrow Railway Centre there will be free admission to a display of vintage road vehicles, including lorries, military vehicles, light commercials, classic cars and buses from the trust collection and elsewhere.

Passenger services on the railway will include rarely used wooden-bodied Victorian railway carriages from Ingrow’s Museum of Rail Travel, pulled by an open-cabbed Victorian locomotive formerly with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

An open top double-decker in the unique livery of Keighley Corporation Tramways will provide scenic trips across Penistone Hill.

There will be an integrated timetable of heritage buses and trains running every 25 minutes between Keighley and Oxenhope. Railway spokesman Jim Shipley said: “It will be a celebration of transport through the ages — from the days of Queen Victoria through to the modern technological age. These are no stuffy museum pieces — they are still doing the job they were originally built to do, providing safe and reliable transport for both passengers and goods.”

Visitors are strongly encouraged to use the buses and trains because there will be limited car parking space at Ingrow Station.

Free bus services 19 and 27 to Ingrow, Haworth and Oxenhope will depart from the access bus stop in Hanover Street, Keighley

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