Yorkshire & the Humber
Oakworth Station
(Photo: Keighley & Worth Valley Railway)
- Abbey Light Railway
- Kirkstall Abbey to Bridge Road, Kirkstall (Leeds): a little over
¼ mile (0.4 km). 2 ft (610 mm) gauge. Diesel hauled.
- Appleby
Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
- Near Scunthorpe. Operates on the extensive standard gauge
network of the Scunthorpe steel works of Corus.
Steam and diesel hauled.
- Bradford Industrial Museum
- Eccleshill, Bradford. The museum includes a 180 yard (165 m)
horse drawn street tramway.
- Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway
- Cleethorpes. Kings Road to Lakeside to Kingsway: a little over
½ mile (1.1 km). Extension under construction. 15 in (382 mm) gauge.
Usually steam hauled.
- Derwent Valley
Light Railway
- In Murton
Park (near York). Line about 660 yards (600 m) in length.
Standard gauge. Usually diesel hauled, with some steam hauled
services.
- Flamingo
Land
- Theme park at Kirkby Misperton, near Malton, with a 2 ft (610 mm)
gauge railway, a little over ½ mile (0.9 km) in length, with 3
stations (Website contains no information relating to
railway)
- Elsecar Heritage Railway
- Elsecar (near Barnsley) to Hemingfield: ¾ mile (1.2 km).
Extension proposed to Cortonwood, a further ¾ mile (1.2 km).
Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled.
- Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
- Embsay (near Skipton) to Bolton Abbey: 4 miles (6.4 km).
Standard gauge. Steam hauled and diesel railcars.
- Keighley and
Worth Valley Railway
- Keighley (adjacent to Northern Rail station) to Oxenhope: 5 miles
(8 km). Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled and diesel railcars.
Dining trains operate at certain times.
- Kirklees Light Railway
- Clayton West to Shelley: 3 miles (4.8 km). 15 in (381 mm) gauge.
Usually steam hauled.
- Lightwater Valley
- Theme park near Ripon, with a 15 in (381 mm) gauge miniature
railway ¾ mile (1.2 km) in length, with 3 stations (Website
contains little information relating to railway)
- Middleton Railway
- Middleton, Leeds. Line about 1 mile (1.6 km) in length.
Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled.
- National Coal
Mining Museum
- Overton (near Wakefield). The museum includes two short passenger
carrying narrow gauge lines. Admission to the museum site is free of
charge.
- North Bay
Railway
- Scarborough, Scalby Mills to Peasholm Park: about ¾ mile (1.2 km).
20 in (508 mm) gauge. Diesel hauled with steam outline locomotives.
- North Yorkshire
Moors Railway
- Pickering to Grosmont: 18 miles (29 km). Some trains continue to
Whitby over the Network Rail line, a further 6 miles (10 km). Standard
gauge. Steam and diesel hauled. Dining trains operate at certain
times.
- Pleasure Island
- Theme park at Cleethorpes, with a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge miniature
railway, ¾ mile (1.2 km) in length, with 2 stations (Website
contains little information relating to railway)
- Scarborough Cliff Lifts
- Scarborough has no fewer than 3 cliff railways, the highest with
a rise of 162 feet (49 m) (No website located at present)
- Scarborough Spa Express
- Steam trains operating on the Network Rail routes between York
and Scarborough (42 miles, 67 km) and from York to York via
Knaresborough, Harrogate and Leeds (64¼ miles, 103 km).
- Shipley
Glen Tramway
- Saltaire. Unique cable hauled tramway, over 100 years old.
Line 386 yards (353 m) in length, with a maximum gradient of 1 in 7
(14%). 20 in (508 mm) gauge.
- Wensleydale Railway
- Leeming Bar (near Northallerton) to Redmire: about 18 miles
(29 km). A bus service links Leeming Bar with Northallerton (no
bus on Sundays). Proposed extension of the railway to Northallerton
(5¾ miles, 9 km). Possible future extension to Hawes. Standard gauge.
Steam hauled or diesel railcars.
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2000-2008 Glyn Williams
