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    Retaining heritage skills for the future

    Apr 01, 2019 2 minutes
    As told to Lesley Carr

    The RM has been making regular visits to the Severn Valley Railway to meet members of its pioneering Heritage Skills Training Academy. This was set up five years ago to bring new blood into heritage railway engineering, and to future proof the specialist skills that are needed. This month we join 21-year-old Bradley Windridge, the SVR’s apprentice signal maintenance technician.

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