Five million passengers can't be wrong!
As the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway moves closer to it's 40th Anniversary - itself a major achievement - another huge milestone has been passed, with the five millionth fare paying passenger arriving on 8 August 2007.
34 year old Richard Marsden from Dallas, Texas took the honours while visiting the 'Railway Children Railway' with his wife Marcia.
It turns out that Richard has a profound interest in steam railway preservation. He is secretary of a Texas model railway club - the TexN Club and has developed an online encyclopaedia devoted to Britain’s London and North Eastern Railway, which operated in the eastern part of England and much of Scotland from 1923 to nationalisation in 1948.
A recent survey of where passengers had travelled from to ride on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway encountered people in just one day from Norway, Germany, Holland, France, Spain, the USA, Canada, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Australia and the island of Réunion, a remote French territory in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar.