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The Crossing Keeper’s Cat You’ll have travelled through here if you were on your way north. Oxenholme is a little place on the West Coast Main Line between London to Glasgow, in the old Westmorland. These days a lot of the expresses stop here though back in the day most of the important trains, like…

The Old Engine’s Last Journey (a children’s tale for Halloween and Christmas) This is a story I’d like to tell you about from sixty years ago – 1960. It happened to a boy called Peter and a girl, Peter’s sister, called Mary. Peter was 11 and Mary was 8. They lived in a town called…

KENTS BANK STATION LIBRARY Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands LA11 7BB   www.stationlibrary.org.uk Phone: 07795 008691 PRESS RELEASE: September 23rd 2025 Halloween Launch for Railway Ghost Stories Railways lend themselves to the supernatural – going back to Charles Dickens’ famous story The Signalman. A new collection of short stories set in the North-West of England, several on the…

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…