A Ranger Guide was invested into her unit on Saturday, on the footplate of a steam locomotive!
Ruth Townend, 14, recited her Guiding promise - watched by group colleagues - at Oxenhope Station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
She was among four Ranger Guides from the Wakefield-based Sachra unit who spent the day on the railway carrying out work - including cleaning locomotives - towards the service part of the movement's "Look Wider" programme.
The investiture ceremony was conducted by unit leader Margot Cutt, who is also a volunteer on the K&WVR where she has trained to work as a booking clerk. She told us: "In the Ranger Guides we try where possible to find somewhere a bit different to invest new members, and this was a great opportunity to have the ceremony in a more unusual location."
Picture: Ruth Townend, 14, makes her Guide promise as District Commissioner Lynne Gascoigne invests her into the Sandal and Chevet Ranger Unit
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