[3] The railway climbs continually from Hellifield to Ais Gill, a section known as the Long Drag,[4] where it attains a height of 1,169 feet (356 m).

This resulted in some locomotives, particularly the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway owned ones having to run back down the line to Clitheroe in a light engine manoeuvre.

Added to this, numerous freight trains called to exchange wagons in the sidings adjacent to the station.

[8] In LMS days, it was coded as 30A under Skipton, and at the end of the Second World War it had a complement of 30 locomotives.

[13] The Engine Shed Society state that the pits are still extant, though overgrown and now hard to see from passing trains.