In 1861, John McLandsborough, a civil engineer, visited Haworth to pay tribute to Charlotte Brontë but was surprised to find that it was not served by a railway.

Upon sale of the railway, the mill owners made a profit,[citation needed] which was unusual for many lines of that type, as (for strategic reasons) the Midland wanted to prevent the GN from taking over its territory.

On 6 November 1892 the deviation line between Haworth and Oakworth through Mytholmes Tunnel was opened and the original route abandoned.

On 23 June 1962 the new formed Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society chartered a special passenger train which ran from Bradford to Oxenhope and return.

[7] 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.

[14] After the first stage of the study was released, Metro stated concerns about a lack of funding and available rolling stock, meaning that services are unlikely to run in the short to medium term.

[15] Another study undertaken in 2011 on behalf of the Worth Valley Joint Transport Committee found that running up to four commuter trains each way in the morning and evening is feasible.

[16] Download coordinates as: The KWVR has a large collection of both steam and diesel locomotives, as well as supporting carriages and other rolling stock.

In addition, the affiliated Bahamas Locomotive Society owns a steam breakdown crane, based at Ingrow.

A steam train carries (at the front end) out of the tunnel a shocked Corbett holding onto the handrail of the engine.

[22] In 1979, an episode of the long-running BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine was filmed partly along the Worth Valley route, in which the three main characters Compo, Clegg & Foggy visit and then to attempt to stop a runaway steam train having pulled the brake on purpose (and then only to drive upwards and downwards).

[23][24] The railway was used in the filming of Peaky Blinders, a 2013 BBC television drama about Birmingham criminals just after the First World War.

[25] The same year, scenes were filmed for the dramatisation of The Great Train Robbery: A Coppers Tale, with locations in West Yorkshire acting as Cheddington's Aylesbury bound platform.

[26][27] In 2014, Keighley station was featured extensively in the feature-film 'Testament of Youth', as were the interiors of some of the railway's vintage coaches.

[30] According to Screen Yorkshire, other productions that filmed scenes on the railway include "the new Netflix mini-series The English Game, as well as ... Testament of Youth, Brideshead Revisited ... and Agatha Christie's 2018 The ABC Murders.

In the 2019 Keira Knightley movie Official Secrets, the railway depicted Cheltenham Spa station".

[35][36][37] The film, Full Steam Ahead with Francis Bourgeois, features Oakworth station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, and 2MT locomotive No.