Culture & Heritage - Morecambe Bay Partnership
The Bay area includes historic promenades, iconic follies and lookouts, Iron Age hillforts, Bronze Age stone circles, Viking graves, important ritual and religious sites, a crucial Victorian railway, and internationally significant industrial, maritime and World War heritage.
Railways, Ports and Resorts of Morecambe Bay including the Ulverston ...
May 1, 2020 · Railways transformed Morecambe Bay, creating the industrial town of Barrow, the resorts of Grange-over-Sands and Morecambe, and culminating in the new deep-water port at Heysham in 1896. This book looks at these achievements as well as a long and fascinating pedigree, beginning with perilous foot crossings of the bay which for centuries formed ...
Train from Carnforth to recreate historic first steam journey on …
1 day ago · Passengers will have the opportunity to visit Locomotion, the sister museum of the National Railway Museum. It houses the largest undercover collection of historic railway vehicles in Europe, including Robert Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 and Timothy Hackworth's Sans Pareil. ... Real Local Radio Across North Lancashire & Morecambe Bay - 103.5FM ...
The Lake District's steam trains and heritage railways
Feb 21, 2022 · Known locally as the La’al Ratty, the trains of this miniature steam railway trundle along from the coast at Ravenglass (where there’s also a railway museum) all the way to Boot, which sits amidst some of the Lake District’s most spectacular mountain scenery.
Stone Jetty - Wikipedia
The Stone Jetty is a jetty in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was built by the North Western Railway in 1853 as a wharf and rail terminal for both passenger and cargo transport. [1] The former station building with adjoining lighthouse stand on the jetty and are Grade II-listed. [2]
Morecambe Harbour railway station - Wikipedia
Morecambe Harbour railway station was on the "little" North Western Railway's Morecambe Harbour and Railway in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was opened in 1848 and closed in 1904. The line remained open to serve the harbour until an unknown date. Today the station building still exists as a cafe.
Monday Morecambe Memories – Secrets of The Stone Jetty
Aug 12, 2024 · Old railway lines were uncovered along with 3 underground chambers: one just north of the lighthouse and two on the jetty’s eastern side. These were probably for unloading cattle and may have been linked by tunnel to livestock pens on the other side of Marine Road.
On Track to Morecambe – by Peter Wade – Lancaster Vision
Jan 4, 2021 · You may not be able to spot as many trains these days in Morecambe but you can still spot many railway relics. Watch out too for some of Morecambe’s railway history on the news series of The Architecture the Railways Built due out this spring on UK TV’s Yesterday Channel.
Heysham Boat in Morecambe Bay | Art UK
Heysham Boat in Morecambe Bay (London, Midland and Scottish Railway poster artwork) Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) National Railway Museum
UK Steam Rail Day Trips and Worldwide Rail Holidays
Passengers will have the opportunity to visit Locomotion, the sister museum of the National Railway Museum. It houses the largest undercover collection of historic railway vehicles in Europe, including Robert Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 and Timothy Hackworth's Sans Pareil.