Museum of Rail Travel

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

The Trust has provided railway carriages for over 70 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 on loan to the Middleton Railway, Leeds.

The VCT Collection

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

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 30 mph zone^[1] – when in fact it has a maximum speed of only 18 mph. (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 left Ingrow for pastures new in June 2008.^[3]

Internet databases

The Vintage Carriages Trust website is also the gateway to the Railway Heritage Register databases: over 7,500 wagons; over 5,600 carriages; over 300 trams, over 60 horse-drawn vehicles, over 40 turntables

References

↑ "Speeding fine for 18mph museum piece". Manchester Evening News. 26 July 2002. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
↑ "Speeding ticket for museum piece". Telegraph & Argus (Bradford). 2002-07-26. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
↑ "Scammell Mechanical Horse". VCT website. Retrieved 2008-02-25.

External links

Vintage Carriages Trust website
Filming credits
Carriage and wagon databases
Scammell "Mechanical Horse" at Ingrow, including photo
Aerial photo of Museum of Rail Travel. Other map and aerial photo sources.

West Yorkshire museums

City of Bradford museums	Baildon: Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum Bradford: Bolling Hall Museum Bradford Industrial Museum Cartwright Hall National Media Museum Peace Museum Haworth: Brontë Parsonage Museum Ilkley: Ilkley Toy Museum Manor House Museum Keighley: Cliffe Castle Museum East Riddlesden Hall Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Museum of Rail Travel Saltaire: Salts Mill

Calderdale museums	Brighouse: Smith Art Gallery Halifax: Bankfield Museum Dean Clough Eureka! The National Children's Museum Hebden Bridge: Gibson Mill Heptonstall: Heptonstall Museum Shibden: Shibden Hall

Kirklees museums	Batley: Bagshaw Museum Birstall: Oakwell Hall Dewsbury: Dewsbury Bus Museum Dewsbury Museum Gomersal: Red House Museum Huddersfield: Castle Hill Colne Valley Museum Rugby League Heritage Centre Tolson Museum Marsden: Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre

City of Leeds museums	Aberford: Lotherton Hall Leeds: Abbey House Museum Armley Mills Industrial Museum Bramham Park Harewood House Henry Moore Institute in Leeds Kirkstall Abbey Leeds Art Gallery Leeds City Museum Leeds College of Art Middleton Railway Museum Royal Armouries Museum Temple Newsam Thackray Museum Thwaite Mills Museum Otley: Otley Museum

City of Wakefield museums	Netherton: National Coal Mining Museum for England Nostell: Nostell Priory Pontefract: Pontefract Museum Wakefield: The Hepworth Wakefield Wakefield Museum

City of Bradford

Towns,
villages,
areas
and wards

Governance

Constituencies
Council
Councillors
Parishes
Politics
Wards

Culture
and
Tourism

Countryside	Airedale Brontë Country Heaton Woods Ilkley Moor Judy Woods Pennine Way Wharfedale Yorkshire Dales

Buildings and Listed buildings	Bolling Hall Bradford Cathedral Bradford City Hall Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple Bradford Reform Synagogue Cartwright Hall East Riddlesden Hall The Gatehaus Lister Mills Mechanics' Institute Library Midland Hotel Milligan and Forbes Warehouse Oakwood Hall Oakworth Hall Ponden Hall St Patrick's Church, Bradford Salts Mill Wool Exchange

Theatres, halls & cinemas	Bradford Alhambra Bradford Playhouse Cubby Broccoli Cinema Ilkley Playhouse IMAX Keighley Picture House Odeon Leeds-Bradford Pictureville Cinema St George's Hall

Museums	Bolling Hall Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum Bradford Industrial Museum Bronte Parsonage Museum Cartwright Hall Cliffe Castle Museum Colour Experience Ilkley Toy Museum Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Manor House Museum Museum of Rail Travel National Media Museum Peace Museum Transperience

Organisations	Bradford Festival Choral Society Bradford Girls' Choir Bradford Mechanics' Institute Library Fanderson Idle Working Men's Club

Shopping	The Broadway Wool Exchange

Parks	Bingley St Ives Bowling Park Bradford City Park Harold Park Holden Park Horton Park Lister Park Peel Park Roberts Park

Events	Bingley Music Live Bradford Mela Moor Music Festival Ilkley Literature Festival Infest Keighley Festival Saltaire Festival

Heritage	Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Saltaire International Heritage Centre Shipley Glen Tramway Undercliffe Cemetery

Hospitals

Education

Media

Publishing	Emerald Group Publishing Keighley News Telegraph and Argus

Radio	Pulse 1 Pulse 2 Ramair Sunrise Radio

TV	AAP TV

Organisations

Companies	Barratts Shoes British Wool Marketing Board Club 18-30 Dean, Smith & Grace Ellis Briggs Findel plc Grattan Greenwoods Idle Working Men's Club JCT600 Kelda Wm Morrison Supermarkets Mumtaz Group Pace Micro Technology Provident Financial Safestyle UK Seabrook Potato Crisps Sports Turf Research Institute Timothy Taylor Brewery Yorkshire Building Society Yorkshire Water

Other	Abundant Life Church Al-Mustafa Centre Association of Nail Technicians Bradford Mechanics' Institute Library Human Relief Foundation Sacar

Sport

Teams	Cricket: Bradford Cricket League Football: Bradford City Bradford City WFC Bradford Park Avenue AFC Eccleshill United Silsden FC Thackley FC Rowing: Bradford Amateur Rowing Club Rugby: Bradford Bulls Bradford Dudley Hill Keighley Cougars Keighley RUFC Speedway: Bradford Dukes

Venues	Cougar Park Great Horton Road Horsfall Stadium Odsal Stadium Park Avenue Valley Parade

Waterways

Rivers	River Aire River Wharfe River Worth

Canals	Bingley Five Rise Locks Bingley Three Rise Locks Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Crossings	Beckfoot Bridge Ireland Bridge Thornton viaduct

Transport

Air	Leeds Bradford International Airport

Rail	Airedale Line Caldervale Line Railway stations Wharfedale Line

Bus	Stations: Bradford Interchange Ilkley bus station Keighley bus station Services: Arriva Yorkshire First Bradford First Calderdale & Huddersfield First Leeds Transdev in Keighley

Road	M62 M606 A647 A650 A658 A6036 A6177

Miscellaneous

BD postcode area
Crime
History
- Timeline
People

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 30, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.