DMU Operations: North Eastern Region
Leeds-Ilkley
DMUs were introduced to these services on 5 January 1959.
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9th September 1974
A 2-car Class 108 calls at Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, on way to Ilkley, 09/09/1974 Graeme Phillips Collection.
24th April 1976
An eight-car DMU formation arrives into Ilkley with the 12:23 ex-Leeds on 24 April 1976. It is formed of a two-car Class 101 and three two-car Class 114s. Another Class 101 can be seen in the distance working the 12:52 Ilkley - Bradford Forster Square. Michael Mensing.
22nd June 1976
The 1.08pm Leeds - Ilkley service has just arrived into Guiseley station on June 22, 1976. The refurbished Class 108 DMU contains DTC 56191. Michael Mensing.
22nd June 1976
The 15:23 Leeds - Ilkley service departs from Burley-in-Wharfedale formed of a two-car refurbished Class 108 DMU on 22 June 1976. Note the 1Z44 headcode in the left cab window. Michael Mensing.
3rd July 1977
The 16:35 Leeds - Ilkley service arrives into Menston station on 3 July 1977 formed of a refurbished two-car Class 108 DMU. There has been some repairs to the platform edging. Michael Mensing.
14th September 1978
In the intermediate “refurbished” livery of blue on white, a Derby twin set is framed by the canopy at Ilkley station on 14th September 1978. Murray Liston.
5th May 1979
A visit (my only one, so far) to Ilkley on 5 May 1979. I travelled on the 10.27 from Leeds, formed of Metro-Cam Class 101 2-car unit 56385/50202, and this unit is seen departing from Ilkley on its next working back to Leeds, past Ilkley signal box. Ilkley Junction box, which dated from 1913, was closed as from 11 July 1994 in the run-up to the electrification of the line. According to Wikipedia "Ilkley is notable in that it was the last British Rail station to be lit by gas. The gas lights were extinguished for the last time on 8 May 1988." Lewis Bevan.
9th August 1980
In refurbished livery a Class 108 two-car DMU formed of DTCL E56199 & DMBS E50605, was arriving at Ilkley with a service from Leeds on August 9th 1980. The route from Leeds to Ilkley is now known as the 'Wharfedale Line' and was electrified in 1995. The two tracks on the far left background of this scene were once through lines that ran beyond Ilkley on the route to Skipton via Addingham and Bolton Abbey that was closed in 1965. Martyn Hilbert.
9th August 1980
Complete with its oil tail lamp still in position, a refurbished liveried Class 108 two-car DMU formed of cars E50605 & E56199 was stood at Ilkley with a service for Leeds on August 9th 1980. The station still retained its 1950's BR North Eastern Region enamel signage in Tangerine and was also gas-lit. Complete with his shopping in a bag, the driver is walking towards the cab. On the extreme right of this view, where the hole-in-the-wall is located, were once the through platforms in the days when Ilkley was on the route to Skipton via Addingham and Bolton Abbey, the western end of which now forms the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. The line beyond Ilkley closed in 1965. Martyn Hilbert.
9th August 1980
A Class 108 two-car DMU stood in platform 1 at Ilkley with a service to Leeds on August 9th 1980. The Wharfdale Line from Leeds to Ilkley was electrified in 1995. The Driving Trailer Second Lavatory (DTSL) was recorded as E56193, yet that vehicle was in Blue and Grey livery from April 1980, so either the vehicle or date is wrong... Martyn Hilbert.
3rd March 1982
E56051 + E50166 with the 16:25 Leeds - Ilkley service departing Burley-in-Wharfedale on the now electrified Ilkley branch, March 3rd, 1982. John Carter.
6th March 1982
A two-Car Class 108 DMU crossing the River Aire bridge approaching Calverley (Leeds) with 2L60 1357 Ilkley to Leeds 6th March 1982. Keith Long.
13th March 1982
Ilkley station with a Class 111 destined for Leeds and a Class 108 for Bradford Forster Square on 13/3/1982. Once a through station with services to Skipton and Colne it has since been electrified and reduced to 2 platforms. Stephen Burdett.
27th August 1983
A recently arrived Class 108 DMU in Ilkley station with the 14:19 from Leeds on 25 June 1983. Closest is DMBS E53613. Robert Thomas.
28th April 1984
A Met-Camm DMU takes the branch line at Apperley Bridge with a Leeds - Ilkley service on 28/4/84. Stuart Mackay Collection.
August 1986
This is Ilkley taken in August 1986 with a Met-Camm DMU waiting to leave for Leeds. The KDH Archive.
1st January 1987
A two-car Class 101 formed DMBS E53166 and DTSL 54051 takes up a tiny part of the vast Ilkley station when seen on New Years Day 1987. The empty trackbeds on the right once carried trains to Bolton Abbey and Skipton. Jonathan Hazan.
June 1989
Class 111 DHS no. E78713 is seen at Ilkley awaiting departure with the 1514 service to Leeds, in June 1989. This relatively early vehicle was originally 50272 then 53272, before undergoing conversion to 78713 by removal of one of its Rolls Royce engines in 1983. It was withdrawn only a few months after this slide, in October 1989. Graeme Phillips Collection.