29/06/1968 - Oakworth (K&WVR), West Yorkshire.

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Both carrying "Worth Valley" livery, Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T 41241 & USA 3F 0-6-0T No 72 in charge of the Keighley & Worth Valley Tailway "Re-opening Special" at Oakworth - 29/06/1968.

Wikipedia claims:

"British Railways operated the last scheduled passenger train on Saturday 30 December 1961 and with no Sunday service the passenger service was deemed withdrawn from Monday 1 January 1962. Freight trains continued to run to Oxenhope until 18 June 1962. On 23 June 1962 the newly formed Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society chartered a special passenger train which ran from Bradford to Oxenhope and return. After this train the section between Oxenhope and Ingrow Junction was completely closed.

The preservation society had been formed in 1962, a collaboration of rail enthusiasts and local people, which purchased the line from BR and reopened it on 29 June 1968 as a heritage railway. The first train to leave Keighley for Oxenhope on that date was the only train to operate anywhere on the network due to a national train strike. The line is now a major tourist attraction operated by 500+ volunteers and roughly 10 paid staff. It carries more than 100,000 passengers a year." 

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© 2020 - Peter Brumby / 53A Models of Hull. Scanned by me from the original 35mm monochrome negative; photographed by Peter Brumby & reproduced with his permission.

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Taken in: UK / England / Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury / Haworth (show map)

Taken on: June 29, 1968

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