Rail Story Open Day
Rail Story, Ingrow Bridge, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD21 5AX
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 13th-14th September 2025.
Saturday
- FREE entry to the Carriage Works and Engine Shed museums & exclusive tours of the workshops throughout the day
- 'Bahamas: The Story of a Locomotive' - special talk by Pete Skellon at 14:35 in the Learning Coach (60 mins)
- Learning Coach exhibition open, including a new short film by Scott Coulthard Video
Sunday
- FREE entry to the Carriage Works and Engine Shed museums & exclusive tours of the workshops throughout the day
- 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. Hear how he entered his new design in the Rainhill Trials, a race for the honour of having your engine rule 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.
Timings & Tours
- Saturday 13 September:
- 1100-1600, Tours throughout the day, Talk at 1435
- Sunday 14 September:
- 1100-1600, Tours throughout the day, Performances at 1130 & 1400
Location & directions
Rail Story, Ingrow Bridge, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD21 5AX
- Directions:
- The Rail Story museums are located in Ingrow yard on the site of Ingrow Railway Station, just off the corner between South Street and Haincliffe Road.
- Contact on day:
- Vintage Carriages Trust
- Telephone number:
- +441535680425
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
Wheelchair users and those with mobility issues may struggle on the cobbled yard, although there is a small path down the yard and disabled parking by the entrances.
