Old Locomotive Committee A.G.M. 2018

The Old Locomotive Committee (OLCO) is the 'Supporters Club' for the 1838 locomotive 'Lion' and 'Lion' models. The full-size 'Lion' now has pride of place in the Great Port Gallery of the Museum of Liverpool on Liverpool's Waterfront.

Events of Saturday, 14th April 2018


'Lion' in the 'Great Port' Gallery at the Museum of Liverpool.
This overhead view reveals the need for a bit of dusting.

Special Talk

At 12 noon, prior to the A.G.M., the Chairman introduced a special talk about ‘Lion’ entitled "The Lion's tale" which was given by historian and author Anthony Dawson. This entertaining and informative talk described the design and build of the locomotive, her various patents and gave a glimpse of engine driving life in the 1830s.


OLCO AGM 2018: Anthony Dawson giving his talk "The Lion's tale".

The A.G.M.

The 33rd Annual General Meeting of OLCO was opened by the Chairman of OLCO, John Brandrick in the Museum's Education Room 2 at 1.30 p.m. The meeting was very well attended this year and, in addition to electing a committee for the next year, there was much lively discussion about 'Lion' matters, both prototype and model. Members of the society will receive formal minutes of the proceedings. The Museum's Curator of Land Transport & Industry, Sharon Brown, was present and made OLCO Members welcome. The society is grateful to Sharon for providing the venue.


OLCO AGM 2018: The Chairman addresses the meeting.

The A.G.M. had been held at the Museum each year since 'Lion' was installed in the Great Port Gallery. There are brief reports on some earlier A.G.M. at the Museum in this blog:-

2012
2013
2014
2015

The Old Locomotive has its own website here.

Other posts about OLCO on this website

All my posts about OLCO and 'Lion' are here.

My OLCO Pictures

There's a small album of pictures taken on the day here.
All my pictures showing 'Lion' and OLCO events are in the collection The Old Locomotive Committee and Lionsmeet.

Travelling again

Events of Wednesday 18th April 2018

I'm writing this in the spacious Qatar Airways Business Lounge in Doha. I'm on my way to Burma (now called Myanmar) at the start of my 13th visit to Burma since my first tentative exploration in 2008.


Business Lounge, Hamad International Airport, Doha

This will be a mixture of visiting friends, sightseeing and finding out more about the charitable initiatives run by Doctor Hla Tun.

I left Manchester this morning at 08:20 on Qatar Airways Flight QR22, enjoying the excellent service provided on the comfortable Boeing 787-8. It's six p.m. as I write this and I should continue to Yangon at 19:55 on an Airbus A319, arriving six a.m. on Thursday morning.

Related posts on this website

This is one of a series of posts describing my 13th visit to Myanmar. This post is the first post in the series.

Clicking on the 'Next report' link displays the post describing the next events. In this way, you may read about the trip in sequence.
Next report.

Alternately, clicking on the 'All my Burma-2018 reports' link displays all the posts on this trip in reverse date-of-posting order.
All my Burma-2018 reports.

My pictures

Doha Airport, Qatar.
(Pictures taken on this and previous transits/visits to Qatar).

[Pictures linked 24-May-2018]