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Today, The railway on which the 1970 movie, 'The Railway Children' was filmed, reopened after the lockdown. I travelled the line to do my bit to help them recover.
A brief history:
The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was saved from closure by the British Railways board, and opened as an historic line in 1968. It is the only, complete branch line preserved in the UK. (Maybe, even, the world?)
Since that time it has run every weekend and summer weekdays, without fail, until March 2020.
It took a global pandemic to close it down.
Because of the lack of revenue, they came very near to shutting-down for good but, thanks to the efforts of their fundraising campaigns and a surprise beneficiary, they have survived.
The amazing good fortune was that the Main line Railway needed somewhere to store a fleet of obsolete trains until they could be disposed of and so, they paid the K&WVR to store them on their track whilst they were unused.
Maybe there is a moral here. Even when things are bleak, you never know what salvation may be just around the corner.
©AMZ2020
A brief history:
The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was saved from closure by the British Railways board, and opened as an historic line in 1968. It is the only, complete branch line preserved in the UK. (Maybe, even, the world?)
Since that time it has run every weekend and summer weekdays, without fail, until March 2020.
It took a global pandemic to close it down.
Because of the lack of revenue, they came very near to shutting-down for good but, thanks to the efforts of their fundraising campaigns and a surprise beneficiary, they have survived.
The amazing good fortune was that the Main line Railway needed somewhere to store a fleet of obsolete trains until they could be disposed of and so, they paid the K&WVR to store them on their track whilst they were unused.
Maybe there is a moral here. Even when things are bleak, you never know what salvation may be just around the corner.
©AMZ2020
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