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    REVEALED: THE REAL RAILWAY CHILDREN STATION

    Jul 10, 2020 3 minutes
    DAVID STAINES

    “Oakworth, Oakworth”, cries the porter in the evergreen 1970 film adaptation of The Railway Children. Conjure up any visual image of the location of the story and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) immediately springs to mind. Where, however, is the real place where the well-to-do Victorian children who had fallen on hard times befriended the railway, waved to trains and watched in horror as cuttings slipped onto the tracks?

    Certainly not Yorkshire! The KWVR was merely a convenient location for filmmakers to record steam in action two years after it had ceased on

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