Yorkshire Dales Railway

Embsay Signal Post

A view of one of the old semaphore signals that stands at the end of the station platform at Embsay station on the Yorkshire Dales Railway, Skipton, Yorkshire.

Beatrice

This engine named Beatrice hauled our train down to Bolton Abbey. Engines of my youth were rarely this clean!

In the Station Café

Embsay station again and a view inside the station café where this smiling woman was ready to serve a Latte or a Cappuccino

Walking the Tracks

A picture that shows the relationship between the signal box and the station, at Embsay on the Yorkshire Dales Railway.

Embsay Signal Box

Embsay Sig Box 2

David

Embsay Sig Box 3

Embsay Station Sig Box

I was pottering around Embsay station on the Yorkshire Dales Railway near Skipton with my camera when David Dyson the signalman approached and we got chatting.

It didn’t take much persuading for him to invite me into the box, and then snap happy smith was in his element!

Embsay Station 1

If you have visited here before you will know that I like steam trains and there are plenty to choose from in the UK. This one is in the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton.

Over the past few days I have been going through my old black and white negatives and scanning a few of the better ones and some of these are of puffing billies. They will appear in forthcoming posts. Sorry!

Can’t have too much of a good thing!

Bolton Abbey Portrait

While visiting the Yorkshire Dales Railway near Skipton, I took a number of environmental portraits of the volunteers who work on the line and this picture was taken on the platform at Bolton Abbey station before taking the train back to Embsay.

We recently made a visit to Skipton in Yorkshire for a second funeral in the area in the space of 3 weeks and it was certainly a time for reflection.

A spare day gave us the opportunity to travel from Embsay to Bolton Abbey on the Yorkshire Dales Railway. This was the scene at Embsay before the midday departure.