Dazzling success for Dartmouth at packed heritage awards gala
THE Dartmouth Steam Railway, which developed and introduced the illuminated Christmas trains concept to the UK market, has scooped a new top honour in the Heritage Railway Association’s 2020 Awards.
For its second Train of Lights season, the railway spent more than £100,000 on its lineside lighting displays, over and above the cost of illuminating its locomotive and carriages with strings of lights.
The efforts and cost produced sizeable rewards: the season was again a sell-out with 22,491 passengers travelling. Several other major heritage lines staged similar illuminated services in the recent festive season and also reaped financial dividends, making a further significant contribution to local tourist economies outside the main season.
At the annual awards
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