Heritage route
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Keighley → Oxenhope · England
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 8 km
- Fastest time
- 25 min
- Average speed
- 19 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- K&WVR
- Train
- Victorian steam & vintage coaches
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1867
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The branch that starred in the 1970 film “The Railway Children”, steaming up the Brontë moors past Haworth to the mill village of Oxenhope.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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