Keighley railway station

Keighley station was first opened by the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (LBER), on a site slightly further up the line in March 1847. A new station was built south of this bridge in 1883–1885, designed by Charles Trubshaw who was a Midland Railway architect. It is also the northern terminus of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (K&WVR). This is a heritage branch line railway run by volunteers that was originally built by the Midland Railway and opened in 1867. Closed to British Railways' passenger traffic in 1962, it was reopened by the K&WVR Preservation Society six years later and is now a popular tourist attraction. Trains on the Great Northern Railway's Queensbury lines to and…

The station was used in the filming of the film Yanks (1979) during the ending, where the troops board their train to head to the front. and in the Pink Floyd film, The Wall (1982). It was used in the filming of Peaky Blinders, a BBC television drama about criminals in Birmingham just after the First World War. The station was featured in the Head & Shoulders advertisement Don't Break Up With Your Hair in 2009. It uses a K&WVR platform, notable for the period features that it has retained over the years. In the first episode of All Creatures Great and Small (2020), the main character, James Herriot, says goodbye to his parents and boards a train in Glasgow; these scenes were actually filmed…