Obituary: Allan Garraway MBE, railway preservationist, manager and engineer [Scotsman]
Date: 07/01/2015
Born: 14 June, 1926, in Cambridge. Died: Overnight 29/30 December, 2014, in Newtonmore, aged 88.
Allan Garraway was one of the giants of railway preservation, an expert who was not merely a railway enthusiast but an enthusiastic railwayman, a subtle but a vital distinction.
Internationally renowned in his field, he ran the world^s oldest operational railway company, an enterprise that would not exist today but for his contribution and tenacity.
For almost 30 years he managed the historic Ffestiniog Railway Company in Wales, which he had been determined to reinvent, and in retirement was a director of the spectacular Strathspey Railway in the Highlands, an area he had known as a schoolboy.
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Born: 14 June, 1926, in Cambridge. Died: Overnight 29/30 December, 2014, in Newtonmore, aged 88
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Location: Aviemore Shed
Company: Strathspey Railway
// Bill Roberton
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