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SEPTEMBER 2017 2017 Awards The official journal of nominations THE HERITAGE RAILWAY ASSOCIATION now open! incorporating Sidelines and Broadlines ■ HLF Volunteering Study ■ Making successful grant applications ■ Fundraising and Gift Aid EU Cultural The new Heritage interactive Prize HRA map Getting to grips with data Try it today! protection changes Welcome to this edition of Heritage Railway News Dates for your Diary I hope you enjoy this latest edition as much as you have told September us you enjoyed the first one! Thank you for all your feedback we will continue to try to learn from your comments. 15th - 17th HRA Study Visit The HRA Awards panel is once more gearing up for our Isle of Wight. Awards season and is eagerly looking forward to your nominations this year. Plus we have an extra award this year November that we believe is likely to be eagerly contested. We feel it is 7th Seminar: Working with right to celebrate the railways, museums, tramways and cliff disabled volunteers and lifts that provide an excellent visitor attraction experience. visitors. Birmingham Could the first HRA member to win this new award be you? 8th. Managers Conference Nominations close on the 2nd November. More information Safety, Funding, Marketing can be found on the next page. Birmingham. Our visit to the Isle of Wight takes place on the 15th - 17th 12th Closing date for HRA September, there is still time to book your place if you wish to Award nominations. join in what should be a very interesting excursion. Planned activites include visits to the IOW Railway, Vintage Bus Museum and the Model Engineers; with the opportunity to Inside this edition have in depth discussions about what they do and how they Page work. Our next set of mid week meetings is also getting near, HRA Award Nominations 2 this year on the 7th and 8th November in Birmingham. HRA Award news 2 Sentinel 7109 Joyce 3 On Tuesday 7th we are holding a seminar on working Help for members 4 with disabled volunteers and visitors; with inputs and Grant Support 5 presentations from various organisations who have the O&S Matters 5 expertise on how to make the experience of the visitor and Fundraising 5 volunteer, as well as the railway, more rewarding. European News 6 European Awards 2018 6 On Wednesday 8th we have our half yearly conference for Studies and Contributions 7 Managers, Directors and Trustees. Our headline speaker is IOW September Study Visit 7 Ian Prosser, Chief Inspector of Railways and the overall theme Filming Top Tips 8 is improving business techniques. Business Rates 8 Bookings for all of these events are on our website Heritage Alliance 9 Offers and Wants 9 www.hrashop.com. HRA Code of Conduct 9 People in Railways 10 The Flying Scotsman continues her tour around heritage railways in In Memorium 11 2017, here seen passing through Cornwall before her successful visit to New Members 12 Bodmin and Wenford Railway. Many more of her visits this year can be Vacancies 12 found online here. Photo courtesy of G Ball. DO YOU WANT YOUR OWN COPY OF THIS NEWSLETTER? If you or your colleagues would like a copy please let us know their email address, send to:- [email protected] The next edition will be published in December 2017 Awards News 2017 HRA Awards Leighton Buzzard Railway Accepts their Peter Manisty Award Nominations are now open for HRA Vice Chairman Mark Smith joined volunteers at the Railway’s Annu- the Annual HRA Awards where al General Meeting, the first to be held in the new Pages Park station’s we celebrate all that is great Margaret Moore Community Room, after which he presented the plaque about the heritage movement. that is to be displayed in the station entrance. The Leighton Buzzard Rail- If you have any special achieve- way had received the occasional award for ‘an outstanding contribution to ment or activity that you believe preservation’ in February this year. warrants consideration please let us know. The awards will be Speaking to the assembled members after the AGM, Mark Smith identi- presented at our Awards Dinner fied previous winners of the HRA’s most prestigious award as the restora- on the 10th February 2018 at the tion of St Pancras station, the National Railway Museum for the gathering Burlington Hotel, Birmingham. of A4 ‘Pacifics’ and the rebuilding of the Welsh Highland Railway. What impressed the judging panel was that the Leighton Buzzard Railway had Not sure whether your notable delivered the new station at Pages Park and a number of other projects achievement will fit into a specif- including several locomotive restorations without the receipt of the level ic category? Well - let us worry of grant funding and availability of general resources that are typically about that. We are supported by central to such projects. He also praised the Railway that all this had been our friends from the mainstream achieved without the normal course of operations suffering in the process. Railway Magazines, and they and the Awards Committee can decide which awards category your nomination is best entered. St Albans South Signal Box wins local accolade So, the Awards Committee would like to hear about everything that After the disappointment of narrowly missing out in this year's Heritage is marvellous in your world. If you Railway Association awards St Albans South Signal Box has been recog- have seen some rather splendid nised locally in the Mayor of St Alban's Annual Pride Awards. At the recent achievement, progress or new celebration dinner the Trustees of the Signal Box were presented with the initiative happening at a member Mayor's Recognition Award. railway, tramway or museum, or the completion of a special loco- This is a personal award made by the Mayor to a local project that has motive restoration or overhaul had a significant impact on the community and heritage of St Albans. this year we would like to know. Councillor Frances Leonard, the Mayor, praised the efforts of the Trust The closing date for submission that was established by volunteers to restore and preserve the St Albans is the 12th November 2017. South Signal Box as part of our railway and architectural heritage. The Trust also runs communi- To be considered, your nomina- ty-focused events so visi- tion must include a brief descrip- tors can experience pulling tion of the achievement, a con- the levers and ringing the tact name, telephone number bells while trains pass by. and an email address. A photo- graph should also be included. The Signal Box is open regularly and entry is free. Please send nominations to: For full details see the [email protected]. Trust website here Page 2 Sentinel 7109 ‘Joyce’ members raised the Nominated for the John funds to buy 7109. In Coiley Award in 2016 2010 Andy Chapman The Shrewsbury-based Senti- and Nigel nel Waggon Works developed Dickinson its new Sentinel Locomotive took joint in the 1920’s, producing 7109 ownership after 5 years of development. with the Its balanced design had a cen- intention to tral heavy water tank, boiler restore it at the rear and engines at the to working front. Late in 1927 she was order, Andy put through tests by the LMS at became sole Newton Heath and showed that owner in it could haul 1000 tons on the flat November 2016. For it to handle passenger trains, and 250 tons up a 1 in 40 gradi- vacuum braking was chosen to ent. It was found to use half the Restoration fit with the heritage rolling stock fuel of a similar capacity conven- 7109’s restoration began at Mid- at Midsomer Norton. This ne- tional loco, could be got going somer Norton on arrival in 2004. cessitated designing a system in an hour and only needed one Many small items were removed from scratch. man for operation. These were and put into storage. All the paint highly advantageous features for was removed from the bodywork In Operation a shunting loco at the time. and new layers were added fin- 7109 was originally named ishing in a Radstock-like black ‘Joyce’ after the daughter of 7109 was purchased by Croy- with white above waist level in- Mr Sandeman, the chairman of don Gas Works where it worked side the cab. Nigel and Andy Croydon Gas Works. from 1928 until 1960. Suitably purchased it in this state in 2010. impressed by the Newton Heath In Sentinel circles, many refer test results, in 1928, the Som- Many original parts were missing to 7109 as ‘Joyce’ so it was de- erset & Dorset Joint Railway and the original castings for the cided to rededicate her with her Company purchased two similar chimney bases were so thin that original name. locos for use at Radstock. Being they had to be recast. within a couple of miles of Rad- At the same time, it was decided stock, Midsomer Norton is the All attempts to reclaim missing to pay homage to the two Sen- ideal location for 7109 as the original items came to nothing tinels that worked at Radstock only remaining standard gauge and they had to be acquired from 1928 until 1960. In their relative of the unusual Radstock anew, substituted by modern LMS period from about 1930 un- Sentinels which were scrapped items or re-manufactured. Like til 1948, they were painted black around 1960. most industrial shunters, 7109 and numbered 7190 and 7191. never had support for train brak- ‘LMS 7109’ kept the same idea In 2004 eighteen Somerset and ing.
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