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Having been several months since I last posted, thought I would start with the ( very few!) highlights of the rest of 2024! Shows how little I have done when this can be summarised in a relatively short post! 06/05/2024 – Ravenglass Gala A very last-minute decision to attend the Gala weekend at...

On Tuesday 5th December I travelled from Barrow in Furness to London Euston (outward journey) using an off peak return purchased from the Avanti website. Departure from Barrow was 08:49 (arrive Lancaster at 09:48) and the reservations given by Avanti were for the 09:58 Lancaster to Crewe and...

28th April 2022. Not usually the sort of day I would consider writing about, but this was my first rail trip since 9th March 2020, a grand total of 780 days. I had been considering going somewhere for a while but knew I didn’t want to go to a big city or spend much time on trains. In the end...

Furness Model Railway Club's annual exhibition is being held on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October 2019 at Barrow Sixth Form College, Rating Lane, Barrow In Furness Cumbria LA13 9LE See poster below for further information

Furness Model Railway Club's annual exhibition is being held on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October 2018 at Barrow Sixth Form College, Rating Lane, Barrow In Furness Cumbria LA13 9LE See poster below for further information Layouts on display include FMRC's modern image club layout...

Summer 2017. Having lost my trip to Glasgow courtesy of attending a work conference and the ELR Diesel Gala due to a Northern strike, it has been a run of the mill summer with no outstanding trips to report on and very little in the way of trips other than to work, or for various days out, so I...

Having recently found most of my old haulage books / scraps of paper notes from the mid 80’s to early 90’s, the days when I could go down to the local station and take a loco hauled service out of town (oh hang on, I can still do that for about the next 18 months or so thanks to the 37’s, well...

I am heading to Edinburgh on Thursday, so as well as taking in some of the festival, I am hoping to make a start on red-lining some Scotrail units. Just wondered if anyone knows which services from Edinburgh to Glasgow are diagrammed for a Class 156 unit, or is it just pot luck as to what is...

First of all since this is my first report, let me say a bit about myself, having a Dad who worked on the railways meant I was always going to have an interest, and really until the end of loco hauled workings would often be out and about predominantly in the North West. Anyway pacers and...

Living in Cumbria, the introduction of 37’s on the coast line has re-awakened my interest, and as I have a couple of trips to London coming up I am planning to improve both track coverage and ‘red lining’ of London Overground units and also FGW HST’s before they are replaced. I have a few...