YOUR engaging picture function on Ingrow (West) Station on pages 22 and 23 of final week’s Keighley Information omits crucial reality of the rebuild, for it was not the Ingrow Station constructing which was demolished with all stones fastidiously numbered – it was Foulridge, 15 miles throughout the border in Lancashire.
On the Keighley & Price Valley Railway (Ok&WVR) reopening in 1968, the unique Ok&WVR firm station constructing at Ingrow (West) was in such a derelict and harmful state that trains did not even cease there, and the constructing was ultimately demolished.
Then throughout the reconstruction, paving and setting of Ingrow items yard by the Manpower Providers Fee (MSC) within the Eighties, a brand new station constructing was sought, of an architectural type which might match the present Ok&WVR stations at Oakworth, Haworth and Oxenhope. The previous Midland Railway Firm station constructing at Foulridge, derelict however nonetheless intact, was chosen and bought – and it was this constructing which was moved, stone by valuable stone, 15 miles throughout the border to be reconstructed at Ingrow. All the activity was accomplished with such ability by the lads of the previous MSC that the Ingrow station constructing now appears to be like as if it has all the time been there, and it actually fooled your researcher!
The image purporting to be “the demolished engine shed” is actually the products shed timber extension inbuilt 1911 to retailer rising portions of woollen items being despatched by rail from Clough’s Mill. This constructing has subsequently been rebuilt and is now branded as Ingrow Loco, the museum and workshops of the Bahamas Locomotive Society.
Graham Mitchell, former Ok&WVR Preservation Society chairman, 1987-99
