The steam trains of the historic Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

Very impressive is boarding the historic Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, which makes for a short journey, just five miles, but allows one to take a trip back into British train history as its carriages are pulled by an original locomotive that still puffs steam like a large teapot. You board the train at Keighley, as miners did from 1867, when this one of the UK's oldest railways was opened, which was initially named the Midland Railway and later merged into the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The steep start is quite spectacular as it forces the locomotive to make an immediate titanic effort, manifested in the roaring noise that echoes from slope to slope in the oak-studded valley. You see the vestiges of the old woolen mills dating back to the early 1900s, which were supplied with coal by this very train, and then you immerse yourself in the typical West Yorkshire country scenery for the remaining eight kilometres to Oxenhope.