THE Scottish Railway Preservation Society has been awarded £144,290 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund’s Covid-19 Response Fund to help complete the restoration of National Museums of Scotland-owned LNER 4-4-0 D49 No. 2712 Morayshire.
Museum of Scottishimportance as an item of national importance and to ensure its continued running as an operational locomotive. The overhaul will be a mixture of contractor work offsite by LMS and volunteer work based at Bo’ness. We have been lucky that the funding award will cover the cost of outsourcing sections of the work while we undertake other elements in the engineering workshop.”
