Ingrow (West) railway station

Ingrow (West) railway station is a single-platform station serving the suburb of Ingrow in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. It is served by the preserved Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. The station is 1.25 miles (2 km) west of Keighley station and 2.25 miles (3.62 km) west of Haworth railway station.[1]

Ingrow (West)
Station on heritage railway
LocationIngrow, City of Bradford
England
Coordinates53°51′14″N 01°54′54″W
Grid referenceSE057397
Operated byKeighley and Worth Valley Railway
Platforms1
Key dates
1867Opened
1 January 1962Closed to passengers
18 June 1862Closed to goods
1968Reopened

History

Although work began in 1864, the Worth Valley was delayed in opening until 1867 due to some issues, not least a Methodist chapel at Ingrow, which stood right underneath where the tunnel immediately south of the station would go. This involved spending over £150,000 in resiting the chapel.[2] The station opened in April 1867, along with the rest of the line, but was closed in January 1962 to passengers and in June 1962 to goods.[3] After the station's closure, the existing station building was vandalised and later demolished,[4] so, when re-opened in 1968, it was used as an unstaffed request stop. An appeal for donations raised enough money to buy the station building at Foulridge (on the Skipton-Colne line) which had closed in 1959 and had been built in a similar style to the other stations on the Worth Valley line;[5] Ingrow West was an anomaly - its building was in a different style to Haworth, Oakworth and Oxenhope.[6] The building at Foulridge was then demolished and rebuilt at Ingrow, opening in 1989.[7]

On its opening, the K&WVR had six out-and-back services between Keighley and Oxenhope, which had risen to eight workings per day in the 1880s.[8] By 1906, the branch and Ingrow were being served by sixteen services daily, which in 1946, two years before Nationalistation, had been reduced to twelve.[9][10]

Ingrow West
To Keighley
Ingrow Loco
Goods Shed
Ingrow Tunnel
[11]

Incidents

The station lies at the end of a relatively straight downhill from Oakworth, some 1-mile (1.6 km) distant, and so was fitted with catch points. On 27 September 1875, some goods wagons became detached from their engine and rolled down the gradient. The signaller at Ingrow was supposed to have left the catch points set for derailing in the station there, but on hearing a whistle, he changed the points expecting the full goods train. The wagons ran into Keighley station where they crashed into a passenger train.[12]

The station today

The station (off South Street, Ingrow) is the first scheduled stop on the line from Keighley railway station. The Vintage Carriages Trust, which supplies historical carriages for film and TV programmes, has its Museum of Rail Travel which opened in 1990 next to the station.[13][14] The station is home to the Bahamas Locomotive Society and its collection of locomotives.[15] The society runs the Ingrow Loco Museum in the former goods shed, which has been extended to create workshop space for the overhaul of its collection of locomotives.[16] The goods shed is an original feature of the 1867 station.[17] The gates at the entrance to Ingrow West are from the former Midland Goods Yard in Keighley, which is now Sainsbury's.[18]

Ingrow had a second station, Ingrow (East), which served the Great Northern Railway's Queensbury Lines to Bradford and Halifax.[19]

Preceding station   Heritage railways Following station
Damems   Keighley and Worth Valley Railway   Keighley

References
  1. Body, Geoffrey (1989). Railways of the Eastern Region. Wellingborough: P. Stephens. p. 96. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.
  2. Suggitt, Gordon (2015). Lost railways of South & West Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-84674-043-5.
  3. Whitaker, Alan (1986). Bradford railways remembered. Clapham: Dalesman. p. 69. ISBN 0-85206-870-0.
  4. Bairstow 2004, p. 80.
  5. "Disused Stations: Foulridge Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  6. Bairstow 2004, p. 74.
  7. Bairstow, Martin (1991). "Along the line". The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway a guide and history. Halifax: M. Bairstow. p. 36. ISBN 1-871944-04-X.
  8. Bairstow 2004, p. 72.
  9. 1906 Bradshaw's Timetable at the Internet Archive
  10. June 1946 Bradshaw's Timetable at the Internet Archive
  11. Padgett, David (2016). Railway Track Diagrams, Book 2 - Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
  12. "The Keighley Railway Accident". York Herald (5, 819). Column A. 2 October 1875. p. 7.
  13. "Vintage carriages star in Paltrow film". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  14. Divall, Colin; Scott, Andrew (2001). Making histories in transport museums. Leicester: Leicester University Press. p. 79. ISBN 0-7185-0106-3.
  15. Rychlikova, Megi (25 March 2013). "Full steam ahead for locomotive restoration project". York Press. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  16. Knights, David (19 November 2015). "Learning to love the railways at Ingrow station". infoweb.newsbank.com. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  17. King, John, ed. (2016). The railway goods shed and warehouse in England. Swindon: Historic England. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-84802-328-4.
  18. Bairstow 2004, p. 17.
  19. "Disused Stations: Ingrow East Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2020.

Sources
  • Bairstow, Martin (2004). Railways Through Airedale and Wharfedale. Farsley: Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-28-7.
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