Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Return to Barrow Hill



In 2012, we went back to Barrow Hill for another strong ex-LNER line-up. Not illustrated amongst the few photos I took were Joem, the only steam locomotive I have ever driven [for half an hour], and the “Old Gentleman’s Saloon”.

Featured in the film of the Railway Children that was shot on the Keighley and Worth Valley, LNER Saloon 21661 is, according to the K&WVR, “arguably the oldest operational standard gauge passenger coach in the world”.

I’m certainly not going to argue. I had a nice sit down for a minute or two, and for some reason I felt very comfortably at home in there.



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