ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016/17 RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST · ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016/17 The Trust publishes an Annual Report for four specific purposes: I to publish its Accounts; I to illustrate the projects to which its grants have been awarded; I to acknowledge the financial contribution made to projects by external partners; I to acknowledge the contribution made to the development and delivery of projects by sponsors, consultants and contractors. We have a wider purpose too. Britain’s railway heritage deserves every opportunity that can be taken to make its quality and diversity better known. So our illustrated project reports also serve to attract potential new partners to work with us in this important and challenging field. CONTENTS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016/17 Chairman’s Statement 3 The Hon Sir William McAlpine Bt introduces the Report; details the Trust’s commitment to improving railway built heritage through its grants and attracting continuing high levels of external funding; Front cover: Bury St Edmunds Station considers the current grant-funding Inside front cover: Ingatestone Station situation country by country; describes the Inside back cover: Liverpool: Hamilton Square on-going work of using Department for Station Transport funding to assist in converting Back cover: Cambridge Station closed viaducts to pedestrian and cycle routes, and using the Maber legacy to commemorate the railway’s contribution Coventry Station: Remodelled ticket office to the Great War; announces a rare change ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in staff with the Company Secretary’s Photography by Paul Childs, Spheroview Ltd, retirement; thanks the Trust’s sponsors for Tunbridge Wells, Kent their support; and commends the Trust’s personnel for their dedication. Other photographs as individually credited Review of Projects 4-29 The Trust is grateful to the following for permission to publish photographs: Reports on the Trust’s grant-aided projects, Hege Hernæs including: restoration work to stations, Jimmy James turntables, lodges, a milepost, stone benches, war memorials and historic documents; conversions to a restaurant, heritage centre, and coffee shop; provision of a waiting shelter, routes over closed viaducts, and Victoria Cross plaques; with diverse grant recipients including a children’s nursery, an armed forces veterans’ association and a charity for disabled people. National Railway Heritage Awards 28 Research and text by Andy Savage and Malcolm Wood, assisted by Claire Pickton The Railway Heritage Trust Conservation Design by Geoffrey Wadsley Award for 2016 is won by Network Rail Printed by Kingsley Print & Design Ltd, Commercial Property for the restoration of Egham, Surrey Corrour Station and Signal Box. Grants and External Contributions 30-31 A detailed list of grants awarded and external partners’ contributions. The Trust’s Accounts 32 A summary of the audited accounts. 1 RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST 2017 RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST · OFFICERS AND ADVISORY PANEL 31st March 2017 EXECUTIVE BOARD Chairman : The Hon Sir William McAlpine Bt Deputy Chairman : Jim Cornell Executive Director : Andy Savage Director : Marcus Binney ADMINISTRATION Company Secretary : Malcolm Wood Personal Assistant : Claire Pickton ADVISORY PANEL Robert Baldwin Stanley Hurn Gordon Biddle Sir Simon Jenkins John Boyle David Lawrence Richard Broyd Chris Leah Timothy Bryan Adrian Lyons Anthony Byrne Geoff Mann Professor Dugald Cameron John Martin Jamie Coath Frank Paterson Sir Neil Cossons Oliver Pearcey Philip Davies Dr John Prideaux Ian Hay Davison Malcolm Reed Ptolemy Dean Simon Rigge Denis Dunstone Martin Robertson London Euston Station: New window in the East Lord Faulkner of Worcester Paul Simons Lodge Dr William Fawcett Theo Steel Christopher Fildes Jerry Swift Robin Gisby Robert Thornton Dr Ann Glen* Peter Trewin Chris Green Dame Margaret Weston Chris Heaps Adam Wilkinson Charles Howeson * Appointed to the Advisory Panel during 2016/17 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ADVISORY PANEL The Advisory Panel Annual Meeting was held on 10th October 2016, at 1 Eversholt Street, London. Guest speaker was Dr Roger Bowdler, Director of Listing at Historic England, who gave a presentation on ‘Thematic Listing’, with specific reference to the railways. On 17th October the Trust again held a successful second meeting in Glasgow, with Panel members and Scottish industry partners present. Here guests enjoyed a presentation on the Forth Bridge, by Dr Miles Oglethorpe, Head of Industrial Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland, followed by a tour of Glasgow Queen Street Station. RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST 2017 2 CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT AM PLEASED TO REPORT that, for a Manchester London Road memorial, the 32nd year, the Trust has continued latter being unveiled by Michael Portillo, Ito deliver improvements to the and continue to work on a book on the national railway built heritage across all railway contribution to the Great War, to of Great Britain. In 2016/17 we funded publish in late 2018. We have also 51 grants using Network Rail’s funded a board interpreting the Devon- sponsorship, plus two from Highways shire Tunnel at Bath, of which we England (Historical Railways Estate)’s funded the reopening some years ago. sponsorship, and nine from the Maber As far as the organisation of the Trust legacy, making a total of 62 grants, a is concerned, we are approaching the slight increase on 2015/16. The grants first change in our staff for eight years. were worth £2.01 million in total, and After nine years with us Malcolm Wood drew in £3.54 million of external has decided to retire at the end of 2017. d funding. This latter figure remains at a o His contribution to the Trust has been o W high level, and continues to show the massive, and we are most grateful for all m l o c business benefits for Network Rail and l that he has done, with his design skills, a Highways England (Historical Railways M his work in producing the Annual Estate), as well as social ones. The Chairman unveils a plaque at Wickham Report, and his grip on our financial and In England we gave 40 Network Rail- Market Station administrative management. I wish him funded grants, to a total value of £1.62 well in his retirement, and am sure that million. The biggest grants were for situation would change for the better: we will still see him from time to time. £250,000, towards restoring Morpeth although this did not happen, we are Malcolm will be a hard act to follow, and Station, a project we have had in mind now awarding substantial grants in I am delighted that Paul Childs, who has for many years, and are most pleased to Scotland for 2017/18, and I hope we taken the photographs for our Annual see going ahead, and for £240,000, will at last see an upturn north of the Reports for the last seven years, will towards further restoration of historic border. have joined us, in preparation to succeed features at London Bridge Station. At the Sadly, despite on-going work with Malcolm, by the time that this Report is other extreme, we gave a grant for just colleagues in both Network Rail Wales published. over a thousand pounds for proper Route and Arriva Trains Wales, the I conclude, as ever, by thanking our glazing in the station clock at position there also remains poor: indeed, sponsors, Network Rail and the Cleethorpes. we did not give a single grant in Wales Department for Transport, through in 2016/17. Highways England (Historical Railways On the non-operational estate the Estate). I must also thank Andy Savage, position is happier: we have continued Malcolm Wood and Claire Pickton for our work to convert closed viaducts into their dedication and determination in pedestrian and cycling routes, thanks to running the Trust. Without their the Department for Transport’s on-going commitment we would not be able to funding, for which we are most grateful. achieve the results that we do. I This year we have worked with Sustrans commend the 32nd Annual Report and and its subsidiary, Railway Paths Ltd, to Accounts of the Railway Heritage Trust complete a new bridleway across the to you. River Calder at Castleford, which uses the redundant Wakefield Viaduct of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. In addition, we are also finally making progress with Bennerley Viaduct, and we hope that in the next few years we will at last see it restored and opened as Nottingham Station: Repaired terracotta a cycle route, an objective we have sought ever since the Trust was formed Scotland saw only 11 Network Rail- in 1985. funded grants, totalling £0.16 million. With the Maber legacy our focus has This very low figure is half that for mostly remained on our commemoration 2015/16, which itself saw a 50% fall of the railways’ contribution to the The Hon Sir William McAlpine Bt following the change of the franchise Great War. Our project to recognise and Chairman two years ago, which brought all honour the railwaymen awarded the London progress on Stations Community Victoria Cross has continued, and all of July 2017 Regeneration Fund-supported projects to these plaques will be unveiled by the end a halt. That our grant figures in of 2017. We have also funded an extra Scotland have fallen by 75% in two name (of a VC recipient) on the Great years is a grave disappointment. Last Central Railway memorial at Sheffield, year I said I was optimistic that the and a replacement for the lost 3 RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST 2017 REVIEW OF PROJECTS Left : Repainting the roundels alterations in the porte cochère to improve the flow of passengers into the station. These changes have made a considerable difference to the internal state of the porte cochère, which we greatly welcome. However, the internal improvements highlighted the poor state of the 32 roundels on the front of the station, each one representing the crest of a Cambridge college.