Museum of Rail Travel

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The Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) is a charity based just north of Ingrow (West) railway 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.

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.

1 The VCT Collection
- 1.1 Carriages
- 1.2 Road vehicles
2 Internet databases
3 References
4 External links

[edit] The VCT Collection

[edit] Carriages

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] Road vehicles

Until early 2008, the museum was also home to a 1948 Scammell "mechanical horse", on loan from Tate & Lyle. This lorry attracted media attention in July 2002 when the Museum received a speeding ticket, from Greater Manchester Police, claiming that the three-wheel vehicle had been caught speeding at 44 miles per hour in a 30mph zone^[1] – when in fact it has a maximum speed of only 18mph. (It was a case of mistaken identity: a Belgian car with the same numberplate has been caught on camera in Bolton). Museum bosses were pleased to be able to show CCTV footage in its defence – at the time of the incident it was in pieces in the Museum's workshops.^[2]

After a lengthy restoration into LNER blue livery, the mechanical horse and a matching trailer were due to be leaving Ingrow for pastures new in March 2008.^[3]

[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