Member

As I said in Committee, my interest in this issue is as honorary president of the Heritage Railways Association. Its members make extensive use of abnormal load road movements to move historic steam or diesel locomotives, or vintage carriages, between railways on low-loaders. Most commonly, this takes place in connection with gala events featuring visiting locomotives, such as that on the wonderful Severn Valley Railway from 16 to 18 April, where the star attraction will be the Duke of Gloucester—not, sadly, His Royal Highness himself, but the British Railways class 8P locomotive carrying his name, numbered 71,000 and built at Crewe in 1954. There will also be visiting locomotives from the East Lancashire Railway and the Bodmin Railway.