It was during a holiday with my grandparents in east Lancashire that I made a day visit to see the delights of York, at least the grand railway station there, plus a tour of the old railway museum in the yard below Queen Street. In those days, the rail journey to Yorkshire from the east Lancashire towns of Burnley, Nelson and Colne was straightforward. Trains linked those places over the now-closed railway link between Colne and Skipton and onwards to Leeds, from which York was an easy add-on to the journey.
On this day, I had to change trains at Skipton