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    Ballast Trust offers advice on heritage railway archives

    Oct 15, 2018 3 minutes

    By Hugh Dougherty

    A SCOTTISH-based charity is offering its expertise and advice to the heritage movement on organising archives.

    The Ballast Trust is celebrating its 30th year of identifying, cataloguing and conserving Scottish business archives, especially those of railway, shipbuilding and engineering companies, throughout 2018, and wants the movement to know more about what it does and how it can help.

    Archivist Kiara King said:“Our primary function is to receive archives from companies,

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