Ride A Film Star!!!
Did you know that you can ride in some of the most famous
railway coaches in the world, that have been featured in many
movies and TV shows?
The Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) is a volunteer body, based on
the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in Yorkshire, England. It
was formed in the late 1960s by a group of volunteers whose
interest was in wooden bodied carriages. They could see that
there was a need to concentrate on the preservation of these
historic items which were in grave danger of disappearing due to
the weather and vandalism damage and unsuitability for regular
use and to held in trust
for future generations.
The Collection held by the Trust is at present nine historic
railway carriages, also three small industrial steam
locomotives, and a collection of railway posters and other
miscellaneous railway items. At present the Trust has on loan
from the National Railway Museum (NRM) a fine selection of
railway dining and catering exhibits. The Trust owns the Museum
of Rail Travel at Ingrow - the first station from Keighley on
the Worth Valley Railway. By three phases of building work over
the last ten years this has developed into a large museum
display and associated workshop, and is the Trust's
headquarters. Although the building is named a "museum", the
Trust stresses that it is the Trust as a whole that is a "Museum
on the Move", and functions as a Museum anywhere where the
Collection can be seen in action or on static display.
Filming and other carriage hire is an important source of
income, and this is where you as a visitor can enjoy traveling
in or behind a star! The number of movies and TV shows that have
used the VCT facilities is huge, but here is a shortened list:
The Virgin and the Gypsy. Film with Honor Blackman, Mark Burns,
Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Fay Compton, Kay Walsh and Maurice
Denham.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Film with Robert Stephens,
Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page, Christopher Lee, Irene Handl,
Stanley Holloway and Peter Madden.
The Railway Children. Film with Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins,
Sally Thomsett, Dinah Sheridan, Iain Cuthbertson, William Mervyn
and Gary Warren.
Yanks. Film with Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave and Rachel
Roberts.
The League of Gentlemen. BBC TV comedy.
Possession. Cinema film with Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhardt,
Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Eleh.
The Forsyth Saga, Granada TV series with Emma Griffiths Malin,
Lee Williams.
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