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Worth Valley Railway Guide Soft Cover Third Edition 1975 44 pages
Worth Valley Railway Guide Soft Cover Third Edition 1975 44 pages
INTRODUCTION
Forming natural barriers between the Counties of York and Lancaster are inhospitable tracts of barren moorland. At one time heavily forested their present acidic soils will bear little more than heather and other tangled undergrowths. The home of wandering sheep they are crossed by tiny gullies -the sources of numerous streams that tumble swiftly down to the major waterways on the plains below. From the moors to the wide open lowlands these streams often drop through steep sided fertile valleys which protrude into the wastes like fingers on the hands of civilisation. Such a place is the Worth Valley. Stretching in a south westerly direction from the industrial town of Keighley it forms a forked cleavage into the Pennine chain, a cleavage which follows the River Worth through Stanbury and its tributary, Bridgehouse Beck. through Haworth and Oxenhope to the moors beyond.
These valleys, inhabited by a hardy race, were to provide natural courses for the iron rails that accompanied the Industrial Revolution. The Worth Valley was no exception. After much clamour a branch line was constructed to join Keighley with Haworth and Oxenhope. What was exceptional was that in later years, when other valleys lost their railways to more modern forms of transport, the Worth Valley retained its line, not primarily as a means of communication but more as a living museum.
Managed and operated by a group of volunteers the Worth Valley Railway of today is dedicated principally to the preservation of the steam locomotives which have served it and similar lines so faithfully for over a century.
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