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    Anniversary lines celebrate as steam returns for summer

    Aug 07, 2020 4 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    KWVR

    THE easing of the Covid-19 lockdown has seen heritage railways big and small restart services – and three in particular have special reason to celebrate.

    The world’s first two standard gauge heritage lines – the Middleton and Bluebell railways – both cancelled their 60th anniversary galas because of the Government restrictions. The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) also postponed its event marking half a century since filming of one of the most popular family films of all time – The Railway Children – began on the line.

    Heritage lines that have restarted in time for the high season undertook an enormous amount

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