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. Interested in this subject? Try this link for more of the same