April 2019
The first plaque to be unveiled following the 2018 National Railway Heritage Awards – announced in December 2018 – was that made to the Landmark Trust for the superb restoration work undertaken to the railway cottage at Coed Y Bleiddiau on the Ffestiniog Railway. The...
December 2018
Mark Carne, Chief Executive, Network Rail, 2014–2018, presented the 2018 National Railway Heritage Awards at a ceremony held at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London on Wednesday 5 December. The Taylor Woodrow Partnership Award was made to the Landmark Trust for the...
November 2018
Thursday 1 November 2018 saw six members of the committee travel to Huddersfield to see the official unveiling of the plaque awarded to Mykanada Ltd for the work undertaken in converting the northern booking office at the Grade I listed station into the King’s Head...
November 2018
The 2017 National Railway Heritage Awards saw two major signalling schemes on Britain’s preserved railways recognised. Both schemes – on the Bluebell Railway and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway – represented a successful marriage of old and more recent technology to...
September 2018
Attendees at meetings often long for the end of the debate but committee members of the National Railway Heritage Awards had a special reason for anticipating the end of the trust’s committee meeting on Wednesday 26 September as the date had been set for the official...
September 2018
The restored station at Scruton on the Wensleydale Railway is no stranger to winning awards; it gained the Railway Heritage Trust Conservation Award at the National Railway Heritage Awards in 2015. However, due to the low level of the station platform at the restored...
