Furness Railway Trust
The FRT's Furness Railway No 20 at the Ribble Steam Railway in February 2012
The Furness Railway Trust is a heritage railway preservation organisation many of whose properties were originally owned by the Furness Railway. It is now based at the Ribble Steam Railway at Preston, Lancashire following its relocation from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. New accommodation which is shared with the Ribble Steam Railway has been built and is used to house, restore and maintain the Trust's locomotives and other vehicles. The Trust often hires its locomotives and stock to other privately owned railways in the UK where they can be seen working.
The Trust owns:
- Furness Railway Nº20, Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive (currently on loan to the National Railway Museum Shildon)
- GWR 5600 Class 0-6-2T Nº. 5643 (currently on loan to the Embsay Steam Railway)
- GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 no. 4979 Wootton Hall
- War Department Nº. WD 194 Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST now named Cumbria(operational)
- Fowler 0-4-0DM Fluff Nº. 21999
The Trust also owns a number of other passenger and goods vehicles, including:
- A North London Railway 2nd Class carriage (currently on loan to the Beamish Open Air Museum)
- A set of vintage carriages which when restored will be formed into a vintage passenger train.
- The only surviving Furness Railway goods wagon - bogie bolster No. 5999
- LMS goods brake van no. M731874 (currently on loan to the Rutland Railway Museum in the East Midlands)
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