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45596 Bahamas MS & L Railway Tricomposite Carriage Don’t forget a KWVR Rover ticket This four-wheeled coach was built in Gorton, Manchester, by Bahamas was built by the North British Locomotive Co in the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) which gets you unlimited travel on the railway as well The CARRIAGE WORKS is the Glasgow for the LMS Railway in 1934. In 1961, a double became the Great Central Railway (GCR). It is a “tri-composite”, as free entry into both museums Vintage Carriages Trust’s Museum of Rail Travel. exhaust system was fitted as an experiment to improve having compartments for all three Classes - one First Class, one It is home to a variety of historic railway Second Class and two Third Class compartments, with a central carriages from the golden age of rail travel. performance, the last such attempt by British Railways on luggage compartment MUSEUM OF RAIL TRAVEL their fleet of steam locomotives. Bahamas was purchased by the Society in 1967, following its withdrawal from British TO Midland Railway No. 358 SKIPTON A629 A629 Railways service at Stockport Edgeley motive power depot. This carriage was built at Derby in 1886 and has a central baggage VCT ...where railway history comes alive. Its recent and most extensive overhaul, supported by the Y compartment, two First Class and two Third Class compartments. LE H National Lottery Heritage Fund, will see 45596 working on G The Worth Valley branch line was part of the Midland Railway, so I NE E LA The ENGINE SHED is the Bahamas Locomotive Society’s T this type of carriage would have carried passengers up and down K the mainlines. OW S Ingrow Loco museum and tells a story of the steam locomotive. th H this line in the early years of the 20 century. A6035 INGR It is housed in the former Midland Railway goods warehouse UT INGROW A650 O built in 1867. S WEST 1054 ‘Coal Tank’ TO N The ‘Coal Tank’ was built at the Crewe works of the London INGROW BRADFOR D HA Great Northern Railway Brake No. 589 INCL LEARNING COACH IFFE & North Western Railway in 1888. It was withdrawn from This coach was built in Doncaster in 1888 by the Great Northern R TO D The LEARNING COACH is a former railway passenger A629 Railway. Its interior would have been quite comfortable, compared HALIFAX A629 coach and now an education and exhibition centre. service in 1958 and became the first steam locomotive with other Third Class carriages of the same period. The Guard’s PEDESTRIANS to be preserved by public subscription. In 1963, it was compartment had “ducketts” by which means he could view down presented to the National Trust, from whom it was placed The RAILWAY STATION is the Keighley the length of the train. RAIL STORY & Worth Valley Railway’s Ingrow West into the care of the Bahamas Locomotive Society a collaboration of: station, from where a train service FIND US Keighley & Worth Valley Railway operates between Keighley and Oxenhope. during 1973. Vintage Carriages Trust Great Northern Railway Brake No. 2856 RAIL STORY is located just a mile south of Keighley Bahamas Locomotive Society Built by the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster in 1898 as one on the A629 (BD21 5AX), SAT NAV will not bring you of a batch of 36 vehicles to the design of E F Howlden, Carriage to the exact location, please follow the signs. Superintendent. Teak was of course used for framing, panelling 1704 Nunlow and beading, and this would have received many coats of varnish OPENING TIMES 11.00am to 4.00pm Th ese gates close imme diatley after the departure of th When e last train. there is no t rain service, these gates close at 4.30 pm. F or further informa tion visit our web ww site at: w.railstory.co.uk Entrance Nunlow was built by the Hudswell Clarke & Co of Leeds in - typically 18 coats. ADMISSIONS 1938 for the cement works of G & T Earle Ltd at Hope in Please purchase tickets at either the Engine Shed Derbyshire, where it spent all its working life. By 1968, it A629 had become surplus to requirements and was purchased Metropolitan Railway Brake No. 427 or the Carriage Works. KEIGHLEY A629 HALIFAX by the Bahamas Locomotive Society the following year. This carriage, together with the other two “Dreadnought” £5 per adult / £4 concessions carriages, represents the pinnacle of the Metropolitan Railway’s £3 children (5-16 year old) under 5s free Nunlow was the first locomotive to undergo overhaul by coaching stock. Nearly one hundred “Dreadnoughts” were built the Society’s volunteer members, which was completed in between 1910 and 1923. No. 427 is a seven-compartment Individual museum entry is also available. Cranes at Ingrow 1971. Its boiler certificate expired 2018. Brake Third. OPENING TIMES Goods Yard Crane Steam Breakdown Crane RS1015/50 11.00 hrs – 16.00 hrs (closed Christmas Day) This crane is typical of many used in railway Built for the LMS Railway in 1931 by 2258 Tiny Metropolitan Railway No. 465 This carriage is a nine-compartment Third, built in 1919. The three Rail Story tells a story of ENQUIRIES & ACCESSIBILITY goods yards (and also on canal wharves). Craven Brothers Ltd of Manchester. Tiny was built in 1949 by Andrew Barclay, Son & Co Ltd at Kilmarnock. It worked at the Bradford Road gasworks in Metropolitan Railway carriages owned by the Vintage Carriages Carriage Works (Vintage Carriages Trust) It was used for loading or off-loading goods It is capable of lifting a maximum of fifty tons. Trust were all initially purchased privately by Mr David Kitton how rail travel used to Manchester, and was donated to the Society in 1970 by the 01535 680425 between road and rail. It has a safe maximum In 1981, it became surplus to requirements from London Transport for the then-proposed Westerham Valley be and where you can North West Gas Board. Tiny requires a major overhaul of its Railway preservation project. Engine Shed & Learning Coach lift capacity of five tons and was operated and was sold to members of the boiler before it can become operational. take a peek into the (Bahamas Locomotive Society) by hand. Bahamas Locomotive Society. past to imagine 01535 690739 Metropolitan Railway No. 509 This carriage is a seven-compartment First, built in 1923. First and re-live Keighley & Worth Valley Railway class accommodation was withdrawn from the Metropolitan Line 402 Lord Mayor of London Transport from 6th October 1941. This type of the experience. 01535 645214 Lord Mayor was built by Hudswell Clarke & Co of Leeds in carriage survived until electrification reached Amersham in KEEP UP TO DATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA 1893 as a Contractors’ locomotive for Edmund Nuttall, to September 1961. @railstoryatingrow work at Salford at the Ship Canal Dock. Its function was to carry materials such as stone or bricks around construction Southern Railway Brake No. 3554 Find us on @RailStoryIngrow sites. The small size of such locomotives was determined by Although often referred to as the “Chatham” coach this vehicle the need for easy haulage by road, on a low loader towed by was actually built for the newly formed Southern Railway. In @railstoryingrow a steam traction engine. The engine was preserved in 1969, design, however, it is almost identical to vehicles built by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway for Boat Train traffic to and from the www.railstory.co.uk being purchased by the Vintage Carriages Trust in 1990. London Termini and Dover or Folkestone. Built in 1924. WWW.RAILSTORY.CO.UK Welcome to Rail Story The Engine Shed… The Carriage Works… The Railway Station… Rail Story is a unique Rail Story sits alongside a collaboration between the long-established heritage steam Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, railway and through its two the Vintage Carriages Trust and award-winning museums tells a the Bahamas Locomotive Society, story about how rail travel used to all of whom remain as be. Take a peek into the past and independent partners in creating imagine how it was to travel in the a place where ‘railway history days when the world was changed comes alive’. by the steam engine. After exploring the site, climb aboard a vintage train and travel the line through Brontë Country. …is the Museum and Workshop of the Climb the staircase (or take the lift) to …is the home of the Vintage Carriages With the use of audio and visual …at Ingrow West, one of six stations on the Competition from roads eventually saw the Bahamas Locomotive Society and is the first floor and discover a story of the Trust which own and care for a collection presentations, you can learn about Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, provides the Railway’s demise in the 1960s until the housed in the former Midland Railway steam locomotive, how it was built and of historic and unique railway carriages, the social changes that rail travel has opportunity to immerse yourself in all that you Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Preservation goods warehouse. by whom, how it functions and stories of some of which have taken starring roles in promoted during the last one hundred have understood from your time exploring the Society was able to revive its fortunes. It is now The Learning Coach... the people who operated them. film and television productions. and fifty years. two museums. one of the UK’s leading heritage attractions. …is our education centre, a Some of the original The exhibition in the Museum has been The Bahamas Locomotive Society is All the carriages have been painstakingly The Carriage Works shop has a vast range Take a steam train, or heritage diesel, and Ingrow West is unique on the Railway in that the original building had to be demolished.