Editing Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (section)

===Reopening===
[[File:S160 'Big Jim' 5820 arrives at Haworth with a service to Oxenhope on the KWVR.jpg|thumb|S160 'Big Jim' 5820 arrives at Haworth with a service to Oxenhope]]
A preservation society was formed in 1962 of rail enthusiasts and local people which bought the line from BR and reopened it on 29 June 1968 as a heritage railway.<ref>{{cite web|title=Worth valley History|url=http://kwvr.co.uk/trains-and-the-railway/history/|access-date=6 November 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915025853/http://kwvr.co.uk/trains-and-the-railway/history/|archive-date=15 September 2015}}</ref> The first train to leave Keighley for Oxenhope on that date was the only train to operate anywhere on the network due to a national train strike.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bradford and West Yorkshire; 40 Year Lookback|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/06/06/keighley_worthvalley_railway_birth_feature.shtml|access-date=6 November 2015|publisher=BBC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509115319/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2008/06/06/keighley_worthvalley_railway_birth_feature.shtml|archive-date=9 May 2016}}</ref> The line is now a major tourist attraction operated by 500+ volunteers and roughly 10 paid staff. It carries more than 100,000 passengers a year.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jones |first1=Robin |title=Volunteers Remember 50th Anniversary of Worth Valley Closure |url=http://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/news/volunteers-remember-50th-anniversary-of-worth-valley-closure- |website=Heritage Railway |publisher=Mortons Media Group |access-date=6 November 2015 |date=20 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194603/http://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/news/volunteers-remember-50th-anniversary-of-worth-valley-closure- |archive-date= 4 March 2016 }}</ref>

The KWVR is the only complete heritage railway in the UK to be preserved and operating. It has its link to the main line which is in regular use for all types of traffic, including public passenger trains and it operates the whole railway as last used by British Railways.