IN the early 1990s visits to Barrow by the Furness Flyer service brought out the crowds for a nostalgic look at the world of steam-powered railways.
Our Evening Mail archive pictures are from 1991 to 1993 when passengers were able to travel in the style of the 1940s on locomotives from Steamtown at Carnforth.
The Evening Mail on June 11 in 1991 noted that six special trips had arranged between Carnforth and Ravenglass and Sellafield.
On September 2 the following year, an article noted that the Furness Flyer service was being pulled by the former London Midland and Scottish locomotive 48151.
It was an 8F type designed in 1935 and one of 930 built.
Around 200 of them were sent abroad, including some to Turkey where they were called Churchills.
When new, the locomotives were sold for £8,355 and expected to do up to 30,000 miles a year.
Among those on Barrow station to greet it were rail enthusiasts from a new club called Furness Railfans.
In 1993 the Furness Flyer provided two services each Sunday in August, all calling at stations such as Grange and Ulverston.
Tickets were £10 for adults and £5 for children.
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