Ian Allan honoured in HRA awards

摘要

The annual awards ceremony of the Heritage Railway Association was held in the Guildhall at Bath on February 8. The Bluebell Railway won the Large Groups prize for its remarkable reopening of the East Grinstead line and Ian Allan OBE won The Railway Magazine lifetime achievement award for services to railway preservation and publishing. Mr Allan, now aged 91, was unable to travel to Bath, so RM editor Nick Pigott took the specially made awards (featuring his first and last combined volumes) to his Thames-side home a few days earlier to make the presentation (below). The awards at Bath were presented by Lord Faulkner of Worcester. Full details of categories and winners were published in our January issue.