Middleton Railway

Middleton Railway Community Day

Transcript

00:00 I'm Ian Smith, I'm the Vice President of the Middleton Railway Trust and today is our community

00:11 day and here we have a number of stalls from various community organisations. We've got

00:17 the fire brigade, we've got the police and a little bit later on we're going to have

00:21 a visit from the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Al Garthwaite. We'll also have Hilary Benn,

00:28 our local MP and local councillors visiting us. So the Middleton Railway was first opened

00:35 in 1758 and we've operated trains every single year since then to where the world's oldest

00:43 operational railway. In addition to that we had our first steam locomotives in 1812, beating

00:51 the well-known George Stevenson and in 1960 we operated the first standard gauge heritage

00:58 railway. We're gearing up for a new season where we're hoping to welcome many visitors

01:05 to the railway and we hope we'll see you soon.

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