Free

13 & 14 Sep 2025

Rail Story Open Day

Vintage Carriages Trust

A weekend of family-friendly activities in a Victorian-era railway station.

Event Details
Date 13 & 14 Sep 2025
Times 11am-4pm
Location Ingrow Railway Station
Keighley
BD21 5AX
Ages All ages
Under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult

To celebrate Heritage Open Days, Railway 200 and Bradford 2025 City of Culture, Rail Story will be offering a number of activities across the weekend of 13-14 September 2025, courtesy of the Vintage Carriages Trust.

On both days, entry to the Carriage Works and Engine Shed museums will be free and there will be special tours of the workshops throughout the day.

The following will also be on offer:

Saturday 13 September:

  • ‘Bahamas: The Story of a Locomotive’, a special one-long talk by Pete Skellon at 14:35 in the Learning Coach
  • Learning Coach exhibition open, including screenings of a new short film by Scott Coulthard Video

Sunday 14 Septmeber: 

  • Family activities in the Learning Coach
  • Meet George Stephenson: engineer and designer of The Rocket, a steam engine designed to change the face of steam travel in the UK. Find out how he entered his new design in the Rainhill Trials, a race for the honour of having the winning engine dominate the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Facilitated by Stories Alive
  • Short performance sketch featuring Branwell Brontë, the only son of the famed Brontë family, as he faces a grilling from the host of a tongue-in-cheek TV game show about the reasons he was dismissed as a station clerk on the Leeds and Manchester Railway (11:30 & 14:00)

This event is part of Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, and is presented by an organisation involved in Bradford 2025’s Elevate programme, which aims to strengthen, sustain and increase the agility of Bradford’s heritage sector.

Credits
Presented by Vintage Carriages Trust in collaboration with the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

Image provided by Vintage Carriages Trust.

Made possible thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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