S&D

Not Stockton & Darlington. Or even Somerset & Dorset! But Surprise and Delight.

The Heritage Railway Association Annual Award winners were announced at a gala evening in Llandudno on Saturday. 

Surprise:  The winning entry in the Infrastructure category was our "Predict & Prevent: A Whole-Railway Asset Management Approach to Water and Infrastructure Resilience on the GWSR”. We beat some very stiff competition from some other outstanding projects. Highly commended were, the National Railway Museum’s refurbishment and reinterpretation of Station Hall in York, the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway’s ‘Independent Line’ project and Peak Rail’s traditional locomotive watering facility.

Delight: The Drainage team, along with our Infrastructure Manager and Chief Civil Engineer are delighted with the win. Especially as it concerns an unglamorous, repetitive, maintenance process dealing with infrastructure assets that many take for granted.

The HRA website has a full list of the 2026 HRA Award Winners.

HRA and GeoInspection present the award to John Dora, GWSR Chairman. Unfortunately due to prior personal commitments, neither our Drainage Team Leader or our Infrastructure Manger were able to attend.