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The Polar Express. (Pic credit: Wensleydale Railway)

The Polar Express Wensleydale: Everything you need to know about the event

Former pub landlord David Robinson founded Hunton Steam Gathering in 1986

How a pub landlord's passion project became one of Yorkshire's biggest events

Rishi Sunak opening Bainbridge Vets surgery in 2016 Picture: LDRS

Vets 'should be refused planning permission’ in Askrigg

James Herriot author Alf Wight used the Peugeot in the years before he died

Peugeot 205 once owned by James Herriot author Alf Wight goes up for auction

The Pacer in its new retro livery

Wensleydale Railway reveal new Class 143 Pacer in retro 1990s livery

David Griffiths from Harrogate Model Railway Group, with a miniture Knaresborough Viaduct.
Photographed by Yorkshire Post photographer Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Watch the moment train travels across miniature version of Knaresborough Viaduct

The steam locomotive J72 "Joem" pulls carriages on the Wensleydale Railway near Leyburn. John Giles/PA Wire

Wensleydale Railway: Celebrating a 'new era' of heritage line with major prizes

How the new store could look (Credit: Morbaine)

Discount supermarket could be built next to Wensleydale Railway

Housing estate next to Wensleydale Railway wins support just nine months after similar rejection

Housing estate next to Wensleydale Railway wins support

The new gates are installed

Wensleydale Railway crossing-keeper uses his inheritance for a new set of gates

One of the Wensleydale Railway's Pacers at Leeming Bar Station

Wensleydale Railway offers people the chance to drive a Pacer train

Many viewers will recognise Darrowby as Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales.

Historic building in James Herriott village could be turned into overnight vets

The Wensleydale Railway. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

The Polar Express Train Ride at Wensleydale 2023: Thousands queue for tickets

The Polar Express has now sold 63,000 tickets

Steam returns to Wensleydale Railway as Black Five booked for Christmas

Redmire Station

Wensleydale Railway launch fundraising drive to re-open Redmire Station

Blind Lane, Askiew

Uncertaintly over plan for homes on former pig farm next to Wensleydale Railway

Volunteers will recreate the 1920s at Scruton Station

Leeming Bar Station to open fully to the public for the first time since 1954

The moment of explosion

Watch moment 12,000-ton coal bunker at Eggborough is demolished with explosives

A Black Five locomotive on the Wensleydale Railway

Wensleydale Railway launch campaign to bring steam back to the heritage line

The Keighley and Worth Valley Pacer in new 1990s livery

Restoration awards for 1990s throwback Pacer and Wensleydale Railway train

The land off Blind Lane where the homes will be built

Housing plan for former pig farm near Wensleydale Railway given green light
A plan to create a housing estate on a former pig farm beside a heritage railway has been approved after overcoming numerous concerns, including over road safety and flooding.

Some 3,000 photographs, dating as far back as the 19th century, will go on display at Finghall Lane Halt, run by the heritage Wensleydale Railway, after they were granted custody of the National Railway Museum’s photography archive. Pictured: Guy Loveridge with the archive

Train enthusiast leaves Wensleydale Railway his fortune for new photo gallery

Archive pic: The steam locomotive J72 "Joem" pulls carriages on the Wensleydale Railway near Leyburn Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Wensleydale Railway turns clock back to 1920s

Pacers at Leeming Bar Station

Wensleydale Railway will move away from steam for the immediate future

Wensleydale Railway finance director Teresa Chapman with one of the Pacers at Leeming Bar

Wensleydale Railway reveal plans for Pacers - including bike trains and Herriot

Three Pacer trains are to enjoy a new lease of life on the Wensleydale Railway.

At last Pacer trains become museum pieces – The Yorkshire Post says

Wensleydale Railway

Army steps in to complete six-month Wensleydale Railway track renewal in weeks

The bridge over the Wensleydale Railway line

Final phase of work on bridge over Wensleydale Railway set to begin

Helen Ashworth at Leeming Bar station. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Ghosts of stationmasters past are reawakened at Leeming Bar

Bedale's high street is as broad as it is attractive. (James Hardisty).

From Romans and Vikings to conjurers and film stars - Bedale has quite a story t...

The Wensleydale Railway at Leeming Bar. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Wensleydale Railway kept afloat with emergency package from lottery

San and Mim Slatcher with their 'new' Pacer.

Pacer trains and a wartime spirit of ‘waste not, want not’ – The Yorkshire Post ...
AT LEAST Northern’s former Pacer trains are not having to be converted into makeshift Nightingale field hospitals...yet.

Sam and Mim Slatcher with one of their new Pacers at the Wensleydale Railway (pic: George Stephens)

Meet the young couple who saved two Pacers from scrap - and want to live in one

The Class 144 Pacer will arrive on the heritage line in May

This Yorkshire heritage railway is getting a Pacer - but it's not even left serv...

One of the Pacers at Redmire Station

The Wensleydale Railway have saved two Pacers from the scrapyard and will be run...

Volunteer station master Keith Walker at Scruton

This is how you can visit the abandoned Yorkshire Dales railway station that cam...

The Gazebo

The 18th-century gem in a Yorkshire city that few people have ever seen

The Central Tramway is a preserved Victorian treasure

Guided tours will reveal the secrets of Scarborough's oldest cliff tramway

Sue Threadgold is a volunteer guard on the Wensleydale Railway.

Salute pioneering volunteer who is guarding future of Wensleydale Railway – The ...

Sue Threadgold at Leeming Bar Railway Station.

Wensleydale Railway and the volunteers who help keep it going

Aysgarth's new owner, David Smith, says he will explore the possibility of restoring the historic link to the Wensleydale Railway heritage line

The old Yorkshire Dales station that will become a businessman's private hobby r...

The hut is located deep in the tunnels beneath the station

Engineers discover 100-year-old hut hidden deep inside railway tunnels

Wensleydale Railway's Leeming Bar Station.

YP Letters: Steam is the answer to Dales line's problems

Alex Wilkes from Long Close Farm near Leyburn with her dog Jem. Pictures by Gary Longbottom.

Farm of the Week: Alex is on right track with Shorthorns near Leyburn

Robert Hardy

The Yorkshire Post Says: Yorkshire and Britain is poorer for Robert Hardy's pass...

Volunteer railway gets on track with free rent deal

Landslip hits some local services on railway line

Chance of free travel on heritage railway

Railway to re-open after landslip

Teak recycled as restoration aid for railway carriages

Follow in footsteps of an old master

Follow in footsteps of an old master

Rail operator hopes for line extension

Rail operator hopes for line extension

Hundreds help recreate wartime in Dales

The small railway with big ambitions

Rail trip on track to support heroes

Rail trip on track to support heroes