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...
August 2018
The Wick & Lybster Light Railway – located in the far north of Scotland – was a line that disappeared before Nationalisation. However, the successful restoration of one of the route’s surviving structures was marked at the 2017 National Railway Heritage Awards –...
August 2018
One of the most significant issues within railway preservation is to try and improve signalling whilst at the same time not destroying the infrastructure of the historic line. The 2017 National Railway Heritage Awards, announced in December 2017 at Merchant Taylors’...
June 2018
One of the more unusual winners at the 2017 National Railway Heritage Awards, announced in December 2017, was the Stainmore Railway Co for its excellent work in reconstructing a water tower and column at Kirkby Stephen East station. Drawing upon elements recovered...
June 2018
Situated on the East Suffolk line is the station called Wickham Market although the building itself is actually in Campsea Ashe. The restoration of the station house, originally designed by the local architect Francis Thompson, by Station House Community Connections...
