Push & Pull

Summer 2009

It's the Oliver Cromwell issue – the visit to the Railway of  the loco which pulled the legendary “Fifteen Guinea Special” commemorating the end of BR steam, provides the front and rear covers and the centre fold with a stunning array of photographs of this remarkable event.

Inside there's news of the revival of the Standard 4 Loco Society; a revitalised Publicity and Marketing Committee; restoration of the line's carriage fleet; an update on the Keighley Signalling Project and detailed reports on each of the locomotives in our Railway's fleet.

And so what would have happened if the Luftwaffe had bombed Keighley and the Worth Valley and its railways in World War 2? Local historian Ian Dewhirst reports on the results of his investigations.

What was it like to drive our Bulleid Pacific No. 34092 City of Wells on the line? Driver Jeff Eldin looks back on a career which took him from Hull & Barnsley Push Pulls to driving HSTs to Kings Cross and back.

Last year's 40th Anniversary recollections continue with David Stewart-David's account of the Summer of 68: the students of Paris may have been revolting then but he discovered that the re-opened KWVLR was not the only source of steam 41 years ago.

In The Other Half of our Gong, fellow HRA-Award winner the Norfolk Norfolk Railway is visited for a look at its magnificently restored Quad Art carriages, for which it shares preservation's major award with the KWVLR.

In Early Days, Eddie Hamlin recalls early working parties in the 1960's as a handful of young and under-resourced enthusiasts began the work of bringing the Keighley to Oxenhope branch back to life.

With more news, book reviews, details of travel bargains for rail travellers to the Worth Valley, readers' letters, Jim Shipley's regular report from 20 and 40 years ago and Tabitha's “Where in the Worth is this...?” quiz, this 60 page all colour issue is well worth reading!