Beer, food, trains…

Beer, food, trains…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Somewhere I have been meaning to get to again for some time, is Middleton Railway. This little heritage line, tucked away in the arse-end-of-the-least-salubroious-area of Leeds is actually the oldest surviving railway in the world. Built as a horse drawn waggonway in 1758 to serve 

Witherslack Hall

Witherslack Hall

Reading Time: 3 minutes We all know I do love a good bit of railway action, and the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway can be quite a regular haunt. I am much more into diesels, but I love a steam train as much as anyone. It was, however, the 

Ely and a Plethora of Freight Trains

Ely and a Plethora of Freight Trains

Reading Time: 5 minutes I have said for a while I have not done enough photography for a while. The other day needed to travel down to Norfolk for some business needing doing, and being up and awake early had the options of killing time waiting to leave, or 

Diesel Gala 2023

Diesel Gala 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s no secret that my train geekery, particularly classic UK diesels comes out fairly often (hey, I am a bona fide ferroequinologist, don’t ya know), and I am very lucky to have the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway so close. It’s also a good ting 

Freightliners and Balm Road Branch

Freightliners and Balm Road Branch

Reading Time: 2 minutes l have been meaning to go and have a look at the Midland Road Depot for a while, but it has always seemed a bit out of the way for a special trip (Laziness, I know). But when my son had a Rugby day in 

Carlisle

Carlisle

Reading Time: 3 minutes After visting in Carlisle we got a little bit of time on Sunday afternoon to have a wander around – something I’ve never had the chance to do on the previous occasions I have been. Much of the centre of Carlisile is dominated by the 

Flying Scotsman and Walking the Worth Valley

Flying Scotsman and Walking the Worth Valley

Reading Time: 3 minutes So after taking the train loving children to see Flying Scotsman earlier in the week we have been back to the Worth Valley to have a walk along the trand and (for me) to try and get some decent Scotsman photos. The route took us 

Riding on a Legend

Riding on a Legend

Reading Time: 2 minutes I still have a little train freak, and I am sometimes worse. We’d been planning this as a suprise for a while. After initially saying that Loading Guage issues pevented them from getting the nation’s favourite locomotive to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, somehow 

Freightliners

Freightliners

Reading Time: 2 minutes I am not sure where this small obsession with Freightliners came from. I blame my son, and also they are very smartly liveried. If you like them we are lucky to have the maintanance depot in Leeds out on the Hallam Line to Wakefield Westgate 

Sheffield and Worksop

Sheffield and Worksop

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have needed to travel to Worksop recently, and of course took my camera. Always liking a bit of Brutalism, a chance to take some shots of Park Hill and the arears around the station. On the station I got a great shot of this 

Class 08s

Class 08s

Reading Time: 2 minutes Keighley and Worth Valley Railway have recently finished restoring a second Class 08 shunter for their fleet, and in celebration have held a special diesel day with their two Class 08s top and tailing, and double heading, journeys on the line. Over a 10 year 

Howarth 1940s Weekend

Howarth 1940s Weekend

Reading Time: 2 minutes I think one of the places we visit most must be Haworth. Obviously there is the appeal of the Railway for me, but this time was not shops, or trains, but the annual 1940s weekend. This is always worth a visit, though it can get