FR20 steaming 33 times at
Shildon
The
engine that celebrates its 150th birthday this year is booked
for 20
public steamings at the NRM's Locomotion in 2013, and another 13 days
mostly on driver experience duties. Contact Locomotion if you would
like it to be YOUR hand on the regulator of the 1863 veteran...!
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Welcome to the award-winning official website for the Furness Railway Trust.
The FRT owns Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive, Furness Railway Number 20, GWR duo 0-6-2T 5643 and 4979 "Wootton Hall", Austerity "Cumbria" and our vintage train.
We are based in the North West of England but our locomotives and carriages are found at heritage railway sites nationwide.
Our fund-raising and your support keeps us going. Why not Gift Aid a donation?!
Fluff moves to
Preston
Our
first ever locomotive - a diminutive shunter formerly at the Barrow
steelworks - has been moved to our Ribble Steam Railway home after
three years on display at Vintage Vehicles Shildon in County Durham.
Website designed by Neil Smith
Colours used are original to the
Furness Railway Company paint scheme.
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5643's at the SVR til 2014!
After completing the overhaul of workhorse 5643, the loco was run
in at the Ribble Steam Railway before a hire breaking new ground
at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in the Derbyshire Peak District. Now
5643 is at the Severn Valley Railway on hire til January 2014.
Meanwhile major work continues on the boiler from "Cumbria" at the SVR. The Austerity failed with a crack on the firebox tubeplate in summer 2010. This is a major contract requiring the insertion of a new firebox tubeplate and replacement of parts of the outer firebox wrapper. It is hoped that "Cumbria" will return to steam in 2014.