PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY HERITAGE AWARDS
![]() "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 |