Farewell to Dame Margaret Weston

TRIBUTES has been paid to former Science Museum director Dame Margaret Weston – who in 1973 has announced the establishment of the National Railway Museum inYork – who died on January 12 at the age of 94.

Dame Margaret also became the president of Association of Railway Preservation Societies, which later became the Heritage Railway Association, standing down from the position in early 2011 when she became its patron.

The daughter of two headteachers, Margaret Weston was born in Oakridge,