THE visit of the National Railway Museum’s Gresley ‘A3’ No. 60103 Flying Scotsman to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) this spring has prompted the 4¾-mile branch to make a temporary alteration to its rulebook in order to allow steam banking to take place.
The KWVR will be turning out an eight-coach train to meet the high demand for seats during the BR-liveried Pacific’s visit from April 1-9, including two Pullmans, which will be top-and-tailed by No. 60103 and one of the railway’s own steam locomotives, likely to be ‘WD’ 2-8-0 No. 90733.
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The ‘A3’ will be positioned at the Oxenhope end of the set, enabling it to work chimney first out of Keighley.
Read more News in the March issue of The RM – out now!
