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Award for railway

THE Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has won its second top award in as many months.

The Toddington-based railway won the Heritage Railway Association's annual award at a ceremony in Peterborough at the end of last month in recognition of its outstanding contribution to railway preservation.

The trophy, a coat of arms that once decorated the locomotive of the Royal Train on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, was accepted by GWR chairman Bob Stark from association president Dame Margaret Weston.

Awards committee chairman John Jeffrey said: "The judges were impressed with the high standard of work put in on the railway's three-mile extension from Gotherington to Cheltenham Racecourse and for the restoration of the Cheltenham Racecourse station itself."

The railway received the Ian Allan Independent Railway of the Year award in December.