A very special train trip takes place to mark Mother’s Day on Sunday.
The volunteer-run Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway will unveil its latest masterpiece, a lovingly-restored 1906 rail directors’ coach.
As it makes its first journey on the line, it will be an emotional moment for Stephen Middleton, who spent three years single-handedly restoring a wreck.
Stephen worked three or four days a week, often in freezing conditions, alone in the engine sheds at Embsay and paid for most of it out of his own pocket.
The carriage has been on loan to the National Railway Museum at York, where it starred in an adaptation of The Railway Children.
Now it is “the jewel in the crown” at Embsay.
There’s no need to book on Sunday, just turn up at Embsay or Bolton Abbey station. Trips start at 10.30am.
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