Volunteers at a Keighley rail museum are flushed with success after winning an award for their restoration of a fire-damaged lavatory carriage.
The Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow has been recognised in the coveted annual Transport Trust Restoration Awards.
It has received a £1,500 cheque - and the Peter Allen Award - for the exterior restoration of the Great Northern Railway composite lavatory carriage. The unique 1898 Doncaster-built carriage was damaged by fire while it was being stored outside, prior to completion of the new Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) workshop at Ingrow.
The charred wreckage has now been transformed into an impressive varnished teak vehicle, which is proving much in demand by TV companies.
So far the historic carriage has appeared in the BBCs highly-acclaimed period drama The Way We Live Now, a documentary on the British painter Turner, and a forthcoming production of the Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound of the Baskervilles starring Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and John Nettles.
The Museum of Rail Travel is open daily between 11am-4.30pm.
Further information is available on the VCT web site at www.vintagecarriagestrust.org.
Picture: VCT chairman Trevor England celebrates the railway coach's award
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