To celebrate its 40th birthday this year, the Railway Heritage Trust has organised a travelling exhibition which can be visited at five locations across Britain during April, May and June 2025.
Railway Heritage Trust is a not-for-profit company that awards grants to buildings and structures of railway heritage which are listed or in conservation areas.
In that 40-year history, the organisation has awarded over 2,000 grants worth more than £70 million to places all the way from the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland to Peckham Rye Station in south London, and the recently opened Hopetown Museum at Darlington North Road Station.
The travelling ’40 years of transformation’ exhibition features just 40 of those 2,000 projects and showcases how looking after our railway heritage can transform places and stations for people and their communities.
The exhibition can be visited in the following locations:
- 7-18 April 2025 – London Waterloo
- 23 April-2 May 2025 – Bristol Temple Meads
- 7-16 May 2025 – Aberystwyth (Vale of Rheidol Railway)
- 19-30 May 2025 – York Station
- 2-13 June 2025 – Edinburgh Waverley Station
Tim Hedley-Jones, director of the Railway Heritage Trust, said: “We are very proud of the long history of support which the Trust has made to railway heritage in Britain. We are pleased to be able to showcase 40 of the best projects we have supported that show how looking after our heritage can transform the lives of people, communities and the places where they live.
“Providing the grant is the easy part – putting together the plans, managing the work and ensuring railway heritage has a sustainable future is the hard part and we thank all those who have delivered these projects”.
Keep up to date with future news, projects and events from the Railway Heritage Trust via their website.
Photo shows Knaresborough Station, one of the 40 places featured in the exhibition. Photo credit: Paul Childs / Railway Heritage Trust.
