The original Ingrow (West) station building was badly vandalised between the time the Keighley to Oxenhope Branch line closed in 1961 and the line re-opened in 1968. The new company could not re-use the station and all that could be done was to keep it tidy and use it as an unstaffed request stop (the photo opposite shows the original Ingrow West building in the mid 1960s after BR closure but before official KWVR opening).
Twenty years later the Society made an appeal for donations from the membership for funds for a project to purchase a new station building. The amount that was needed was greater than the sum total of all donations that had been received since 1962.
Funds were eventually secured and the decision taken to purchase the Midland station building from Foulridge, which closed in 1959 on the Skipton to Colne line. The building was dismantled, transported to Ingrow and rebuilt stone by stone.
The main benefactor was Mr Geoffrey Reeday, who dedicated the foundation stone to the memory of his father who had frequently used the station. The station was opened in 1989 by Baron Ingrow, formerly Sir John Taylor of the well known local brewing family.
As you will see along your journey of the line, the station building is of similar architectural style to the other Worth Valley stations, and it blends into the railway well.
If you look to the end of the platform you will see the entrance to a 150 yard tunnel. Immediately at the other end of this tunnel on the right, is Cloughs Mill which had a private siding up until the closure of the branch. Ingrow is also home to the Museum of Rail Travel - a superb museum operated by the Vintage Carriages Trust which has some of the finest Victorian carriages in traffic and depicts rail travel through the ages. Entry is free to KWVR Day Rover holders.
