Tourist and Enthusiast Railways

Yorkshire & the Humber

Oakworth Station
(Photo: Keighley & Worth Valley Railway)

Abbey Light Railway: Kirkstall Abbey to Bridge Road, Kirkstall (Leeds): a little over ¼ mile (0.4 km). 2 ft (610 mm) gauge. Diesel hauled.
Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society: Near Scunthorpe. Operates on the extensive standard gauge network of the Scunthorpe steel works of Corus. Steam and diesel hauled.
Bradford Industrial Museum: Eccleshill, Bradford. The museum includes a 180 yard (165 m) horse drawn street tramway.
Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway: Cleethorpes. Kings Road to Lakeside to Kingsway: a little over ½ mile (1.1 km). Extension under construction. 15 in (382 mm) gauge. Usually steam hauled.
Derwent Valley Light Railway: In Murton Park (near York). Line about 660 yards (600 m) in length. Standard gauge. Usually diesel hauled, with some steam hauled services.
Flamingo Land: Theme park at Kirkby Misperton, near Malton, with a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway, a little over ½ mile (0.9 km) in length, with 3 stations (Website contains no information relating to railway)
Elsecar Heritage Railway: Elsecar (near Barnsley) to Hemingfield: ¾ mile (1.2 km). Extension proposed to Cortonwood, a further ¾ mile (1.2 km). Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled.
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway: Embsay (near Skipton) to Bolton Abbey: 4 miles (6.4 km). Standard gauge. Steam hauled and diesel railcars.
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway: Keighley (adjacent to Northern Rail station) to Oxenhope: 5 miles (8 km). Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled and diesel railcars. Dining trains operate at certain times.
Kirklees Light Railway: Clayton West to Shelley: 3 miles (4.8 km). 15 in (381 mm) gauge. Usually steam hauled.
Lightwater Valley: Theme park near Ripon, with a 15 in (381 mm) gauge miniature railway ¾ mile (1.2 km) in length, with 3 stations (Website contains little information relating to railway)
Middleton Railway: Middleton, Leeds. Line about 1 mile (1.6 km) in length. Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled.
National Coal Mining Museum: Overton (near Wakefield). The museum includes two short passenger carrying narrow gauge lines. Admission to the museum site is free of charge.
North Bay Railway: Scarborough, Scalby Mills to Peasholm Park: about ¾ mile (1.2 km). 20 in (508 mm) gauge. Diesel hauled with steam outline locomotives.
North Yorkshire Moors Railway: Pickering to Grosmont: 18 miles (29 km). Some trains continue to Whitby over the Network Rail line, a further 6 miles (10 km). Standard gauge. Steam and diesel hauled. Dining trains operate at certain times.
Pleasure Island: Theme park at Cleethorpes, with a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge miniature railway, ¾ mile (1.2 km) in length, with 2 stations (Website contains little information relating to railway)
Scarborough Cliff Lifts: Scarborough has no fewer than 3 cliff railways, the highest with a rise of 162 feet (49 m) (No website located at present)
Scarborough Spa Express: Steam trains operating on the Network Rail routes between York and Scarborough (42 miles, 67 km) and from York to York via Knaresborough, Harrogate and Leeds (64¼ miles, 103 km).
Shipley Glen Tramway: Saltaire. Unique cable hauled tramway, over 100 years old. Line 386 yards (353 m) in length, with a maximum gradient of 1 in 7 (14%). 20 in (508 mm) gauge.
Wensleydale Railway: Leeming Bar (near Northallerton) to Redmire: about 18 miles (29 km). A bus service links Leeming Bar with Northallerton (no bus on Sundays). Proposed extension of the railway to Northallerton (5¾ miles, 9 km). Possible future extension to Hawes. Standard gauge. Steam hauled or diesel railcars.
Yorkshire Wolds Railway: Project, currently in the very early stages, to reopen about 1½ miles (2.4 km) of the Malton to Driffield line between Malton East and Settrington.

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