Visitors to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on Sunday will be able to travel like film stars.

Passengers will have a rare chance to ride in three vintage wooden-bodied, compartment carriages which have appeared in numerous movies and TV programmes.

The carriages are from the Museum of Rail Travel, adjacent to the K&WVR at Ingrow.

The oldest of the trio is No 427, built in 1910 for the Metropolitan Railway -- now the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. It has made no fewer than 28 small and big screen appearances, with credits including both the 1968 BBC TV and 1970 movie version of The Railway Children, plus The Forsyte Saga, Hound of the Baskervilles and Fairy Tale: a True Story.

The second carriage -- No 509 -- was built in 1923, also for the Metropolitan Railway, and its filming accolades include the same Railway Children productions plus Sons and Lovers.

"It is rather unusual in that it is a first class carriage," said Paul Holroyd, a trustee of the Vintage Carriages Trust, which owns the Museum of Rail Travel.

"Nowadays people can't imagine that the London Underground ever had first class carriages, but there were first class carriages on the Metropolitan line until October 1941.

"After that the carriages continued in service but they could be used by anyone, not just holders of first class tickets. Not only did the Metropolitan offer first class travel, it even had Pullman carriages until the outbreak of war."

Completing the trio is No 3554, built in 1924 for the Southern Railway and used between London and Dover/Folkestone.

The carriage travelled to Hampshire for the BBC TV series The Cazalets, and to Leicestershire to form the backdrop for Nicole Kidman's Oscar-winning performance in The Hours.

It also appeared in Brideshead Revisited, BBC TV's Cruel Train and several episodes of the Sherlock Holmes television series, starring Jeremy Brett.

Subject to availability, it is hoped the trains will be hauled by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway liveried 0-6-0 No 957, built in 1887.

As an added attraction, the 1854 Theatre Group and Hade End Brass Band will perform at various locations along the five-mile line.

And Keighley & District Travel (K&DT) and the Bus Museum Trust are supporting the event by displaying three buses which are appearing in the hit YTV series Heartbeat.

Several episodes of the current series include heritage buses attached to the Keighley Bus Museum Trust collection, and three will be together in one scene -- at "Ashfordley Bus Garage" -- on April 25.

K&DT driver John Feather and the company's communications manager Graham Mitchell will both appear with Mark Jordan -- who plays PC Phil Bellamy -- in the scene, which involves a search for a missing person.

The trio of vehicles -- which in Heartbeat will carry the livery of the fictional North Riding Traction -- can be seen in Ingrow Station yard on Sunday.

For further information about the Museum of Rail Travel, log on to www.vintagecarriagestrust.org.