Hull Trains train driver Joanne (Jo) Pyman-Smith left an eighteen-year career in the fire service to begin working on the railway at the age of fifty, and has been shortlisted for a national award in her new role.
The National Railway Heritage Awards have declared the restoration of Richmond station in South West London the winner of their Railway Heritage Trust Conservation Award.
The Severn Valley Railway has been shortlisted in four categories in next year’s prestigious Heritage Railway Association awards.