Rail Ale Weekend - 4 - Keighley Bus Museum

We found this hidden treasure at its Riverside Depot - only a short walk from Keighley Railway Station.

Full details of what this band of volunteers do is on their website at www.kbmt.org.uk/

Rail Ale Weekend - 3 - along the line

Meet "Poncho Man" - a man for all seasons!

Haworth Station and then...

... along the line from Haworth ...

... Keighley








... via Ingrow West, which was originally a Midland station at Foulridge, Lancashire ...

... and its Museum of Rail Travel

... then Oakworth which has been restored to its 1905 condition. It was where the 1970 film "the Railway Children" was filmed

The Station Master's House, which in the film was where Mr Perks lived

Rail Ale Weekend - 2 - our "home" for the weekend

A short tour of Haworth, famous for its connection with the Brontë family

Our resting place for the weekend - a family-run hotel at the top of the hill

The Brontë Parsonage Museum

The Parsonage was built in 1778. It now houses the library and exhibition room; it was presented to the Brontë Society in 1928

A view down Main Street

... but beware of spiders!!

Rail Ale Weekend - 1 - getting there

On Friday 23 October we set off from Sheffield station for a Real Rail Ale Weekend along the Keighley-Worth Valley Railway line.

The occasion was the 6th annual music and beer festival based at Oxenhope

Then to Leeds

.. then by electric train along the Skipton line to ...

This is was what we had come all this way for ...

The joy of real ale and real steam!

This was our destination ...

... but we needed a resting place ...

... so back to ...