THE tragic, criminal and funny aspects of getting things wrong on the railways will feature in a talk to a Lake District history group on Monday.
It will be given by Bill Myers at 2.30pm in the John Ruskin Institute, on Yewdale Road, Coniston. All are welcome.
The talk is called A Horrible History of Railways and features everything from a gallant life lost to save a dog to youngsters taking aim at trains with a catapult.
This month also marks the 60th anniversary of a piece of official railway vandalism — the end of passenger services on the old branch line from Foxfield to Coniston, via Broughton, Woodland and Torver.
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