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Motion · S5M-17958 · 25 Jun 2019

Scottish Railway Preservation Society Secures Major National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant

Lodged by Angus MacDonald Standard Motion 21 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) on securing a major grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund of £741,500 towards its Steaming Ahead project at the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway and Museum of Scottish Railways; understands that the project will see development of the site at Bo’ness with a new fully interpreted visitor trail connecting visitors from the station platform to a new publicly accessible steam engineering facility and the museum itself; notes that a new steam shed is to be built allowing an insider’s view of what is involved in maintaining large steam locomotives; consider that the skills required to maintain steam locomotives are a dying art and that the new steam shed will provide an ideal base for volunteers and staff to carry out their work and support the development of young engineers as part of a planned programme for apprentices and trainees; recognises that the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway and Museum of Scottish Railways are run by SRPS volunteers and that, in 2011, the society was awarded the Heritage Railway Association’s Peter Manisty Award in recognition of its continuous developments in the presentation of Scottish railway history; further recognises that the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway has been developed since 1979 on a site at the shore of the River Forth, and now welcomes over 60,000 visitors every year and has been used in films such as The Angel’s Share, Cloud Atlas and The Railway Man; congratulates SRPS on securing this major grant, and looks forward to construction starting, ensuring that the legacy of Scotland’s largest railway museum is secure for generations to come.

Supporters (21)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.