THE NORTH Yorkshire Moors Railway has won a national award.
The National Railway Heritage Supporters’ best small project award was awarded to the railway for the rebuilding of Levisham Station’s timber slate roofed lamp room.
The build replicates the original North Eastern Railway lamp room, which burnt down in the mid-1960s.
Simon Barraclough, Levisham station master and head of the station group volunteers, said: “Unfortunately there were no blueprints to work from so to recreate the lamp room, original photographs were sourced, studied, measured and compared.
“Using similar material sizes on extant buildings, at Levisham, we also consulted people who could remember the original lamp room, which helped us to produce a set of drawings to work to.”
It took five days and about 500 hours to complete the work on the project during March last year, with labour supplied by the station group and the Network Rail staff.
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