PARTS of a new film version of children’s classic Swallows and Amazons, which is released this month, were filmed on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
The latest adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s book, released across the country on August 19, used the historic railway for filming station scenes.
K&WVR filming liaison officer Roger France said: “I was lucky enough to be invited to the world première of the film in Keswick on July 24.
“As a classic children’s story there are obvious parallels with The Railway Children, so we are particularly delighted that the K&WVR will also be associated with this production as well.”
The novel Swallows and Amazons was first published in 1930, and it is set in the Lake District.
The cast of the new film adaptation will include adult stars Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald and Andrew Scott.
It is the latest in a number of film and television shows which have used the historic attraction, which runs between Keighley and Oxenhope, to shoot period scenes over the years.
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