Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Steam Gala - 9-12 March

"So glad you made it". Enjoy your two days.

 

78022 replaced by 75078 today

 

TVR 85 replaced the standard on the 9.30 from Keighley this morning.

 

Standard 4 not ready in time.

 

85 on its own was mega!

 

Visit to the KWVR on Saturday 11th March

45690 Leander & 45596 Bahamas Keighley station
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Neil

 

85 will also replace 78022 tomorrow

 

Good day. Trains were busy, some delays. Very atmospheric with the snow about, especially this evening with more falling. It'll be interesting to see how falls and sticks, it was fairly heavy just and was beginning to stick.

 

Forecast to turn to rain later.

 

Scenes from a snowy Saturday:













Richard

 

Beautiful.

Thanks @wazza588

 

Much less snow left this morning after the rain. Roads totally clear in Haworth, pavements still have remnants.

 

For anyone arriving into Oxenhope from the Leeds direction, there's a BMW buried in the wall on the hill down into Oxenhope. Road is passable as long as you're not bigger than a car!

 

A few of mine from Saturday

 

Some footage from this weekend's Snowy Stanier Steam-up at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's Steam Gala. Absolute credit to all the volunteers for putting on a fantastic event in the challenging weather conditions!

 

A sample of workings from Saturday when roads were sufficiently clear for cross-Pennine travel; reports suggest that the event was in profit at the end of Saturday so many people made the effort to support the event despite the weather. A selection of my images from the day - mainly around station areas as this septuagenerian was unwilling to risk too much !

 

I am a little concerned about the lads on the penultimate sequence; were they inside the boundary and - if so - how did they get there especially without hi-vis clothing ?

 

Back from an exceptional few days at the KWVR. After a dicey drive into Oxenhope on Thursday morning we used the trains to get around - rode a lot over three days before heading back today.

Unfortunately I forgot my camera - what a trip to leave it behind for! So I was stuck with iPhone photos and videos, as below.

Many thanks to all involved in an excellent weekend.

 

Some video footage from Friday.

 

Magic conditions on Friday afternoon but couldn't move until the gritter had cleared our road of over six inches of overnight snow. Still a good session was had down at Damems Loop...........