Author: Paul Salveson

April 18th 2025 NEW BOOK CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF RAILWAYS IN THE NORTH This year Britain is celebrating 200 years of train travel – and it all started in the North! To mark this important anniversary, Kents Bank Station Library has launched NORTHERN RAIL HERITAGE: an introduction to the social history of railways in the…

The Northern Salvo Incorporating  Weekly Notices, Sectional Appendices, and Northern Weekly Salvo Published at Station House, Kents Bank, Lancashire-North-of-the-Sands, LA11 7BB email: paul.salveson@myphone.coop Publications website: www.lancashireloominary.co.uk No.     326     April 2025    Salveson’s half-nakedly political digest of railways, tripe and secessionist nonsense from Up North, luxuriating in the tepid bath of managed decline into old age…

NEXT TALK Our next ‘Mutual Improvement Class’ is on Wednesday November 13th at 14.00. Peter Holmes will talk on ‘Industrial Narrow-Gauge Railways of Furness’. As always, please book ahead as space is limited. Ring 07795 008691 DECEMBER TALK Wednesday December 11th ‘Christmas Eve in The Messroom: Railway Poetry since 1900’

Kents Bank Station Library’s next ‘special’ open day is on Saturday October 12th. As well as re-dedicating a locomotive nameplate we’ll be displaying some of our extensive collection of books on the social history of railways – the people who worked on the railway in particular. Very often the only time you hear about railwaymen…

PRESS RELASE August 4th 2024 To the editor Gallery on the station features exciting work by locally-based artist Ben McLeod Ben McLeod is a highly accomplished landscape painter based at Halecat House, near Grange-over-Sands. The Beach Hut Gallery, at Kents Bank railway station on the beautiful Kent Estuary, is hosting an exhibition of his work,…

PRESS RELEASE FROM KENTS BANK STATION LIBRARY April 22 2024 (immediate) Book launch of unique tribute to the Steam Railway Age Kents Bank Station Library, on the Furness Line between Barrow and Lancaster, was the appropriate venue for the launch of a unique publication: the railway writings of Methodist minister and theologian E.S. Waterhouse. His…

  Kents Bank Station Library, Kentsford Road, Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands LA11 7BB www.stationlibrary.org.uk   Welcome to our third newsletter. Since our last newsletter in December the library has continued to develop and we have been fortunate in receiving a large number of book donations, as well as additional shelves and a scanner! Thanks to you…

A few quick news snippets from the Station Library at Kents Bank: The unveiling of the station sign (ex-British Railways ‘totem’ sign from late 50s) went reallywell with over 60 people attending. Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, chair of Network Rail, and Councillor Roger Handley, mayor of Grange-over-Sands, did the honours. We also had the…

On a cold but sunny January day on Friday (January 19), over sixty guests assembled at Station House outside Kents Bank station for a very special event. Chair of Network Rail Lord Hendy and mayor of Grange-over-Sands Cllr Roger Handley, unveiled the original British Railways ‘totem’ sign for Kents Bank station. It was rescued at…

A happy New Year! The Library has got off to a good start with a well-attended open day on January 6th – we’re open again on Saturday January 13th, then we’ll be open every second Saturday of the month (as well as by appointment). On Wednesday January 10th we’ve an evening talk by Richard Hinchcliffe…