В Moreton-in-Marsh установят памятную скамью в честь основателя группы поддержки железной дороги

Moreton-in-Marsh rail users will benefit from a memorial bench at the station following a generous gift during the "Moreton 200" anniversary year. The bench will honour Oliver Lovell, founder chairman of the Cotswold Line Promotion Group (CLPG), who lived in Moreton and died suddenly at the station in 2013 after 35 years of promoting and supporting the Cotswold Line. The project has been made possible thanks to a 'windfall' £550 donation from the Branch Line Society, raised through a raffle held on board a recent charter train to Minehead which served the Cotswold Line. Julian Palfrey, publicity officer for the CLPG, said: "In this special year for Moreton the CLPG would like to thank the Branch Line Society for their most generous gift which will enable the provision of this memorial bench. "Thanks are also due to Moreton Town Council for kindly agreeing to install it in a landscaped area at the front of the station as work progresses on Moreton's Transport Hub which has already seen major improvements to bus/rail links from the station ." A giant cheque was formally presented by Branch Line Society member Craig Kinsey to CLPG president Lord Faulkner of Worcester at Moreton-in-Marsh station on Bank Holiday Monday (August 31). The timing was especially fitting as Moreton-in-Marsh marks the 200th anniversary of its first railway, the Stratford-Moreton Tramway, which opened on September 5, 1826.