Posts by FLL Furness Lakes and Lune

The branch welcomed the return of Ian Pilkington who spoke about “Steam & Diesels in the Northern Fells since 2017”. A superb shot of the Sellafield nuclear flask train at…

A good-sized audience was entertained by a set of 3 videos from Colin Kennngton’s 2025 trip to various railways in Germany. The 1st video covered railways in Prague including the…

Wednesday 5th Nov 2025 Our meeting welcomed one of our members Roger Womersley to talk about the class G5 loco which G5 Locomotive Company are designing and constructing from complete…

This followed on from John’s previous presentation which had covered four of the nine administrations into which the railway of India is divided, these having been the Western, Central, Northern,…

Martyn Hilbert joined us at Carnforth to deliver a presentation on 50 years of Merseyrail that celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2021. Prior to this there had always been a…

On a freezing cold night which affected the attendance we welcomed John Sloane to cover Indian railways. He initially outlined the nine Railways into which the system was divided to…

Secretary Report   Alan presented the Secretary’s report for the year and highlighted the subjects of the monthly meetings held. The overhang from covid is still being felt with people’s…

The December meeting of the Branch featured the AGM and was followed by a presentation from David Fowler of Blackburn who took the small audience through a series of superb…

After a poor 1st meeting attendance, it was encouraging to have a much larger audience to see Richard Hinchliffe giving a session on “Flying Scotsman in America and beyond” in…

The 1st meeting of the 2024/5 season took place at Carnforth on 2nd October when David Bousfield presented a slide show on the Railway system in Thailand following recent visits…