Category Archives: Visits

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Talk

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This week, we held a talk about the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway at Ludborough. The club will be at Ludborough for Railways on the Air at the end of September, using the call sign GB0LWR. This will be the final Special Event Station (SES) of the year that we have planned. We had a great turnout, and many questions were answered after the talk. Additionally, we live-streamed the event for the first time, which was a great success. We plan to invest in equipment so the club can stream more special events and talks in the future. The railway is located … Continue reading →

RAF AIR Defence Radar Museum Neatishead.

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Whilst on a recent holiday in Sheringham North Norfolk with my two nephews Mark M3FKL and Graham M3FKM we navigated the North Norfolk narrow country lanes to visit the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead. The site was built in 1941 with hardened building and served through out WW2 up to the present date as a radar installation. It still is an operational air defence radar head controlled remotely from RAF Boulmer, Alnwick, Northumberland. The museum site is vast with over 20 exhibition rooms, radar antenna arrays, WW2 radar displays, jet fighter cockpits and a fully equipped underground cold … Continue reading →