The Wensleydale Railway Trust won the Railway Heritage Trust Conservation Award for the best-restored structure supported by funding from the trust for its superb restoration of their small station at Scruton. The restoration work began in 2011, being completed in 2014 with funding from the Railway Heritage Trust and an Our Heritage grant. The work was carried out largely by the Wensleydale Railway volunteers and with the help of apprentices at Darlington College.

[quote=Andy Savage, Trustee of the NRHA]"This award has given the Scruton team well deserved national recognition."[/quote]

Andy Savage, Trustee of the NRHA and Executive Director of the RHT, said: "I am delighted that Scruton Station has won the RHT Conservation Award. The RHT was very happy to support the restoration project, and was most impressed with the quality of the work that the Wensleydale Railway's volunteers have carried out in restoring this rare survival of a small Victorian station. I was also happy when the NRHA adjudicators chose this project for the RHT conservation award, as this has given the Scruton team well deserved national recognition."

How to find out more

Read more via the Wensleydale Railway Trust website and the NRHA website.

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