Damems Station

MONDAY

I started the day taking the hire van back to Huddersfield and, as it was a nice morning, I walked 6 km back home. Then a trip to Halifax and back (in the car), cleaned the inside of the house windows and then off to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway where the Midland Railway loco 43924 (built 1920) was working the line.

I left the car at Oxenhope Station, where I had lunch and then walked 7 km to Damems Station along the Worth Valley Way, stopping off at Haworth and Oakworth Stations en route.

Damems Station (see extra) has a Ticket-cum-Station-Masters Office, Waiting Room, Lavatory, Signal Box. The platform is only long enough for one coach, which makes it the smallest ‘full-size’ station in Britain. It was opened in 1868 with the purpose of serving a small mill close-by. 

Trains only stop here on request, so the Station Master had to flag 43924 to indicate that it needed to stop (main blip). I was the only passenger at the station.

I took the train to Keighley and then back up the valley to Oxenhope. Travelled home via Hebden Bridge.

Mowed the lawns this evening and then cooked dinner.

28,000 steps