Just a little post from this morning... The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is our local line, and we both spend quite a bit of time riding the trains and taking photographs here about. It did occur to me (Ben) that I probably take it for granted a bit, when it comes to the trains the line operates.
It's easy to forget the sheer variety and eccentric nature of the motive power this railway operates, but a consistent favourite of mine is this, the W&M Railbus. Bought as a pair of vehicles back in the 1960's to operate the proposed public transport service (which never happened), the Railbus units have been a consistent feature of the off-peak timetables for getting on for 60 years.
I really like this unit; it's characterful, and the short size means it's easy to compose into photographs. If it's running I try to make an effort to get photographs of it, more so at the moment as it didn't see much use during the early stages of the Covid pandemic... you can't really socially-distance on such a small vehicle.
When the unit started operating again in the Autumn of 2021, I managed to get a few pics on a sunny day, though my hopes of travelling a bit further afield on the railway fell through, so the shots ended up being on my usual patch around Ingrow and Damems.
Happily the diesel editor at Railway Magazine fancied a pic of the unit, though publishing deadlines being what they are it took until January 2022 to appear. The Railbus is seeing more use at the moment, I'm hoping to get a couple of night shots of the machine in a week or so, with a bit of luck...
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