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On weekends, in particular Saturday mornings, local residents who live in Oxenhope, Haworth, Oakworth and Ingrow catch the early morning diesel service to Keighley, returning later on steam hauled services. During the weekday outside of the summer months, locals instead use the local bus services.
The Keighley Jets brand encompassed a total of seventeen local bus services, which operated in and around the market town of Keighley. Services were operated by a fleet of Mellor Strata minibuses and Optare Solo single-deck buses, which were branded in a two-tone green livery. Features include free WiFi, USB power and audio-visual next stop ...
The name "Oakworth" indicates that the village was first established in a heavily wooded area. Oakworth railway station is on the route of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and was a location in the 1968 TV series and 1970 film The Railway Children. [1]
Keighley Tramways Company constructed a horse-drawn tramway from Ingrow through Keighley to Utley.Services started on 8 May 1889 and were extended into Stockbridge.The company also plied a route from Coney Lane (where the successor company would build a power station) onto Marley Street via East Parade in the town.
The Queensbury lines was the name given to a number of railway lines in West Yorkshire, England, that linked Bradford, Halifax and Keighley via Queensbury.All the lines were either solely owned by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) or jointly by the GNR and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR).
Buses run from the bus station around the town of Keighley. They also run as far afield as Burnley (extending to Padiham and Accrington until 2011), Skipton (extending to Grassington until 2011), Ilkley (extended to Otley and Leeds Bradford Airport in 2016), Leeds (extending to Wetherby from 1993 to 1997), Bradford and Hebden Bridge (previously Todmorden until 2007).
Oakworth railway station sign and vintage advertising boards Keighley and Worth Valley train at Oakworth Station. The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society took over the line and re-opened the line and the station on 29 June 1968. [2] Milk churns displayed on a hand cart and old railway posters bring back images of a former age.
Transdev bus services operate to Oxenhope and beyond on an hourly basis from Keighley via Haworth. Some routes travel via Oxenhope Moor to Hebden Bridge. [9] In 1920 five people died when a charabanc on its way to a knur and spell match in Colne overturned near St Mary's Church. This became known as the Oxenhope Charabanc Disaster. [10]