LNWR Society Forum

Regrettably, due to the Covid 19 Emergency and following the government’s directive on social contact, the Study Centre will be closed until further notice. Hopefully this situation will not last too long. We are however still working on the archive. The material scanned is now being formatted to ma...

Apologies for inadvertently deleting the first post. I had meant to move it to People and replace it with an explanation. I have asked the webmaster if this post can be placed at the top of this topic but apparently the software doesn’t allow this to happen. I had intended to provide the following a...

This newspaper cutting was given to me and it was suggested that the backdrop was the 1838 Coventry old station which was still in situ in 1960. However further examination of the details shows that this cannot be the case. 1678F868-E521-421F-958C-4FC84532B593.jpeg The photograph is from the Coventr...

My apologies for not updating this page earlier. After the posting of this photograph and my asking for help in identifying whether it was Coventry station or not, it was subsequently identified elsewhere as being the Priory Assembly Buildings. I corrected it on the Warwickshire Railways website fro...

Do not forget to join us at the Society's annual ‘Modelling the London North Western Railway’ Open Day on Saturday 6th July 2019. This very interesting and informative day starts 10.00am and ends at 4.00pm. There will be opportunities to view models from both the Society’s collection as well as from...

A posed photograph of L&NWR station staff at Rugby's 1885 station. Reg Instone and Jacqui Kirk are giving a talk to a Family History Group from Rugby on 17th June. Mike Hollick, Dave Pennington and myself will be supporting them. As part of the talk on how to research railway staff record Reg will b...

A friend of mine, Reg Kimber, left me some 20 books containing notes and paper clippings on Coventry's tram ways and the railways of Warwickshire. Now with the Society, they are being scanned and this little gem (to me at least) has appeared. Coke wagon No 5005 of Diag 31 was one of about 20 such wa...

The timetable seen below reflects how the LNWR's Officer's Meetings, comprising the Officers responsible for each district, addressed problems, monitored situations and carried out operational changes in order to ensure the maximum efficiency for the least cost was achieved. In this instance the iss...

We have been digitising copies of the LNWR Officer’s Meeting Minutes. Some parts are fascinating and make for informative reading whilst some are occasionally amusing. For instance throwing stones at a LNWR Train was considered to be a greater offence than derailing a Great Western engine. In the Mi...

I would appreciate some help with a photograph sent to me by Geoff Barwick some years ago and who lived in Earlsdon Coventry. I have relatively little information on the photograph other than what is written beneath the photograph, '8 coupled Goods Engines (sic) 1279 or 1277 (compound). The bridge i...