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Levisham Lamp Room is a winner

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Ploughman, Dec 9, 2014.

  1. Ploughman

    Ploughman Part of the furniture

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    Levisham Lamp Room is a winner for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
    Announced at a ceremony in London for the 2014 National Railway Heritage Awards, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has received The NRHA Supporters’ Award supported by J&J Longbottom. The rebuild the timber slate roofed lamp room at Levisham Station won the competition for the best small project.

    The build replicates an original North Eastern Railway lamp room, which burnt down in the mid 1960’s. Levisham Station Master and head of Levisham Station Group Volunteers Simon Barraclough, comments that “Unfortunately there were no blue prints to work from so to recreate the lamp room, original photographs were sourced, studied, measured/compared and, 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.”

    Full article here:-
    http://www.nymr.co.uk/2014/12/levisham-lamp-room-is-a-winner/
     
    Ploughman, Dec 9, 2014
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    Rumpole Part of the furniture

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    And having seen it on Wednesday while being shown round the NYMR, I can understand why; it looks right at home, just like so many things around Levisham station. I particularly liked the seat from the end of a wooden-bodied carriage!
     
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