Vintage Trains
Vintage Trains through the summer!
Step back in time on selected weekends.
On successive weekends, Vintage Trains will operate using a selection from our collection of historic older coaches, many of which date back to Victorian times and rarely see public use. These carriages form part of the Railway’s museum collection, including carriages from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust (L&YRT) and the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT).
Dates
To be confirmed
LOCOMOTIVES
1054 LNWR ‘Coal Tank’
Built-in 1888, reprieved from the scrap man by WW2 in 1939, 1054 eventually served the national network for 70 years before passing into preservation after being sent for scrap for the second time.
Initially privately preserved, 1054 was given to the National Trust and, in time, passed into the stewardship of the Bahamas Locomotive Society at Dinting, testimony to the care bestowed on their own locomotive, 45596 ‘Bahamas’.
Built: 1888 Crewe
85 Taff Vale Railway Class 02
Having originally been built for the Taff Vale Railway, 85 was sold by the Great Western Railway into colliery service in the North East before entering preservation by the KWVR in 1970.
Built for service in the Welsh Valleys north of Cardiff, no. 85 was deemed surplus to requirements at the time of the grouping in 1923 and was withdrawn by the Great Western Railway in 1927. In 1929, now numbered 426, it made the long journey north to the Durham coalfields, where it remained in service, as NCB no. 52, until 1968.
Salvation came in 1970 when 85 was bought by the KWVR and brought to Haworth for a new life on passenger services.
Built: 1899 Glasgow
52044 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 25 ‘Ironclad’
As 52044 this engine became subject to one of the earliest private locomotive purchase schemes established in the country and was one of the earliest arrivals on the nascent KWVR.
Affectionately known as ‘The Green Dragon’ in ‘The Railway Children’ film, 957 was restored to working order at Haworth Yard and took its place in the delayed 50th-anniversary celebrations of The Railway Children in 2021.
Built: 1887 Beyer Peacock
Rolling Stock
The Rolling Stock is expected to include carriages from The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Trust and The Vintages Carriages Trust.
The Old Gents Saloon
LNER saloon 21661, more famously known as the Old Gentleman’s Saloon in the Railway Children film, is arguably the oldest operational standard gauge passenger coach in the world and seats just 14 people.
1474 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Brake Third
LYR 1474 Hughes taper-end Brake Third was built in 1910 at Newton Heath Works. Bogie Brake Third has five passenger compartments and a Guard and luggage compartment.
47 Blackpool Club Carriage
L&YR no. 47, this Blackpool Club Car was built in 1912 for the exclusive use of businessmen commuting between Blackpool and Manchester. It ended its working life in 1951, being sold for use as a cricket pavilion and then brought to the Railway by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust in 1993 where a full restoration was completed in 2011
1507 6 Wheel 5 Compartment Third
Built probably in 1882 at the L&Y Newton Heath works, after nearly 30 years of service, the underframe was removed and the body relocated to Valley Gardens, Hapton near Burnley, where initially, from around 1910, it provided accommodation for newly-employed miners.
465 Metropolitan Railway Nine Compartment Third
This carriage and the other two “Dreadnought” carriages represent the pinnacle of the Metropolitan Railway’s coaching stock. In the late 19th century, the Metropolitan Railway pushed northwest from London towards Aylesbury and beyond. It eventually met up with the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (or Great Central Railway, as it was by then), itself pushing south.
BRASS BANDS
These will be confirmed once new dates are added.