PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY HERITAGE AWARDS

2 December 2015: I was invited to present the NRHA awards at a ceremony held in the Merchant Taylors' Hall, London - see report of the presentation "For many years now, the National Railway Heritage Awards have brought together the best from the national rail network and the heritage rail movement. During this time, heritage railways lacked a sponsoring department in Government, and one of the recommendations of our all party group in its report on the value of heritage railways – which I am pleased to say is extensively quoted and has been translated into Spanish, Russian and Romanian - was that the Department of Transport should be the lead contact - our gateway to Government." Read my address in full here

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