Museum of Rail Travel

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The Vintage Carriages Trust is a charity based just north of Ingrow (West) station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1965, it became a Registered Charity in 1981 and opened the Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow in 1990.

You may well have seen some of the carriages or steam locomotives which are owned by Vintage Carriages Trust, even if you have never been to Ingrow, as the Trust has provided railway carriages for over 50 films and television programmes.

Two of the steam locomotives owned by VCT - "Sir Berkeley" and "Bellerophon" have visited railways in the Netherlands. "Bellerophon" has also visited Belgium. "Sir Berkeley" is currently on loan to the Middleton Railway,Leeds

The Museum of Rail Travel is also home to a three-wheel Scammell "mechanical horse" lorry, which achieved fame after police said they caught it speeding at 44 miles per hour - in fact it has a maximum speed of only 18 miles per hour.

[edit] The VCT Collection

The Vintage Carriages Trust owns the following carriages:

Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway four-wheeled tri-composite no. 176, built 1876
Midland Railway composite no. 357, built 1886
Great Northern Railway brake third no. 589, built 1888
Great Northern Railway brake composite no. 2856, built 1898
Metropolitan Railway brake third no. 427, built 1910
Metropolitan Railway third no. 465, built 1919
Metropolitan Railway first no. 509, built 1923
Southern Railway brake third no. 3554, built 1924
British Railways Bulleid design third no. 1469, built 1950

[edit] Internet databases

The Vintage Carriages Trust website is also the gateway to the Railway Heritage Register Preserved Carriage Database, with over 5,000 entries, and the Railway Heritage Register Wagon Database, with over 1,000 entries