Leander
Jack Hardman has kindly sent a photograph of a steam special headed by locomotive 5690 Leander. The train was approaching Furness Vale on 29th April 2006
Furness Vale Station
Recreating The Past
Our local railway station once had waiting rooms on both platforms, warmed in winter by blazing coal fires. Irene Andrews was in attendance to sell you a ticket to Manchester or Buxton and to tell you the time of the train. There were even toilets and a ladies' waiting room.
Google Sketchup is a computer program which allows for the creation of a 3D digital model; it is widely used by the architectural profession. I have used this software to re-create Furness Station as it might have appeared in 1960.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Official Drawings
Sunday, 24 March 2013
R. E. Knowles Siding
The History Society has acquired a plan by the London North Western Railway of a the railway siding constructed to provide a link with the tramway. The map is dated 1918 and was perhaps the time of construction of the siding. Trucks were hauled between the brickworks and siding by a cable system and carried firebricks and firebacks for onward transport by goods train.
There had been an earlier siding at Furness Vale operated on behalf of Levi and Elijah Hall, earlier owners of Furness Colliery. This was sited slightly further north and had a spur which ran back as far as Station Road.