Home - Location - Timetable - Facilities - FAQs - Events - Stately Trains News - Photogalleries - Digital Archive - History - Shops - Departments Stocklist - Projects - Signalling - Membership - Volunteering - Links The Railway has access to a large number of historic photos of the line and the rolling stock, which are in the process of being made available via the website. The photos on this page date from before the closure to passengers in 1965. Skipton Station with the Ilkley platforms on the right of the picture, devoid of canopies, and with an early DMU waiting in platform 6, presumably having arrived from Embsay. (c) YDRMT collection. LNER K4 'The Great Marquess' at Embsay Junction with a special in the mid-60s. This is the site of Bow Bridge Loop, and nothing now remains of the signalbox. (c) Gavin Morrison. A very early picture postcard showing a train in Embsay station. From its appearance, it would seem to be from Midland Railway days, featuring the company's engine and carriages. Note too how clean and tidy everything in shot is, as well as how few buildings in the village there are. (c) YDRMT collection. Another picture postcard of the station, this time showing the original Embsay Station signalbox. This seems to be the only photo to include it as others from the same era just miss it off! (c) YDRMT collection. Embsay station, viewed from the west (Skipton) end, towards the end of the line's BR ownership. (c) YDRMT collection. An ammonia working through Embsay (heading for Teeside?), headed by an austerity (of the 2-8-0 or 2-10-0 variety!). This would probably be the 50s. (c) YDRMT collection. A good photo showing the track layout at Embsay prior to preservation, viewed from the footbridge. Note the wooden open wagons on the cattle dock and the siding heading towards the weighbridge (left). (c) YDRMT collection. Another view from the footbridge, this time of a train containing tanker wagons as well as steel mineral wagons. The motive power appears to be a class 37, complete with brake tender. (c) YDRMT collection. The local passenger working prior to DMU operation is seen here - an Ivatt tank and two seemingly non-corridor carriages of LMS origin. (c) YDRMT collection. Embsay station viewed from the signalbox balcony. Even though this is late on, the site still looks well looked after, although not as neat as in Midland days. (c) YDRMT collection. A special working through Embsay (a photo exists of it at Bolton Abbey), with an ex-LMS Jubilee at the head of a rake of ex-LNER teak carriages. (c) YDRMT collection. A view of the entrance to the Skipton Rock Company's quarry at the west end of Embsay. Note that teh signals are all ex MR/LMS and lower quadrant. The ground signal is of particular note, and a pair of these have been used on the new signal on platform 2 as dollies. (c) YDRMT collection. K4 'The Great Marquess' seen on the line again. The location is just to the Bolton Abbey side of Prior's Lane, past the site of the MR's proposed site for Draughton station. The earthworks for this can be seen here, and are still visible today. (c) YDRMT collection. The approach to Bolton Abbey station is somewhat different now compared to this photo. Notice the signalpost which has arms on both sides. (c) YDRMT collection. Bolton Abbey station looking towards Embsay, with the buildings on platform 2 in their reduced form of only one gable. (c) YDRMT collection. Taken outside the entrance to the statitionmaster's office, this picture shows a number of interesting railway features, including the stone chimney (recreated on the new building), poster, platform trollet and lamp. (c) YDRMT collection. Bolton Abbey's original signalbox was located at the ADDINGHAM end of platform 1, the replacement from Guiseley was located at the EMBSAY end of the rebuilt station. (c) YDRMT collection. The signalman (Dick Fawcett) sits on the steps of Bolton Abbey signalbox. (c) YDRMT collection. Bolton Abbey station in its heyday, showing how neat the station is kept, and how ornate the footbridge is by comparison to others on the line. (c) YDRMT collection. Policemen line the station for the royal visit - heading for Bolton Abbey estate and hunting. (c) Bolton Abbey Estate. The King's horse being unloaded at Bolton Abbey station. (c) YDRMT collection. The King mounts his horse outside the station before travelling to the estate. (c) YDRMT collection. An air raid shelter was built into the side of the embankment during the war, and was even prepared for royal use. (c) Ilkley Gazette. Station staff spending a couple of minutes sitting outside the Booking Hall during a quiet period. (c) YDRMT collection. A view from the footbridge showing the neat station, although no longer with a wooden decked platform - it appears to have been filled in with gravel - seemingly a much safer option than wood in the wet weather. (c) YDRMT collection. A postwar photo of the station, showing that it has become somewhat rundown looking at the fencing. The lights on the platform still retain blackouts, but the loco would appear (from the larger original) to have a BR number. The great water tower is still in existence here, but hadn't much longer. (c) YDRMT collection. A photo from near the end, although it does include the camping coach in the back siding. The wooden platform edgings have been replaced with concrete blocks which still survive to this day. (c) YDRMT collection. A photo of the track-lifting train, possibly one taken by David Cash, somewhere close to Bolton Abbey. (c) YDRMT collection. These two photos come from the people staying in the caravan at Bolton Abbey station during demolition and were taken shortly after the removal of the track. Looking towards Addingham with track removed, but the P'Way hut still in existence at the end of platform 2. (c) YDRMT collection. This is more interesting as it shows a destination board from the roof of a carriage. Was it found in the sidings where excursion stock was stabled, or in the station buildings? (c) YDRMT collection. 1964 and a DMU with school children disembarking is seen at Bolton Abbey. (c) YDRMT collection. Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (Holdings) Limited Registered Charity No. 1116386 Bolton Abbey Station, Bolton Abbey, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 6AF General Enquiries: 01756 710614 - Talking Timetables & Fax: 01756 795189 enquiries AT embsayboltonabbeyrailway DOT org.uk webmaster AT embsayboltonabbeyrailway DOT org.uk