{"id":14557,"date":"2016-12-28T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:17:12","slug":"winners-of-national-railway-heritage-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14557","title":{"rendered":"Winners of National Railway Heritage Awards announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 10 awards include the overall Best Entry for 2016\u00a0for the transformation of the disused Kings Cross Midland Goods Shed complex.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Started in 1979, the National Railway Heritage Awards (NRHA) aim to encourage high standards of restoration of buildings, structures and signalling installations, and their environmental care. It promotes public recognition and awareness of the historic railway and tramway heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The winners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NRHA Award for the overall Best Entry for 2016 \u2013\u00a0Kier Construction &amp; Kings Cross Partnership\u2013 transformation of the disused Kings Cross Midland Goods Shed complex<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Woodrow Partnership Award \u2013 thePort of Dover\u00a0\u2013 conservation of the former Dover Marine Station Building<\/li>\n<li>Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award \u2013 London Underground\u2013 the removal, conservation and reinstatement of the Paolozzi mural mosaics at its Tottenham Court Road Station<\/li>\n<li>Urban Heritage Award \u2013 Merseyrail Electrics 2002 Ltd \u2013 imaginative work at its busy James Street Station in Liverpool.<\/li>\n<li>Contractors Award\u2013 Iarnrod Eireann \u2013 refurbishment and strengthening of the Boyne Viaduct at Drogheda<\/li>\n<li>London Underground Operational Enhancement Award\u2013 Virgin Trains\u00a0\u2013 work to bring back to life the neglected West Side Buildings at Stoke-on-Trent Station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nrha.org.uk\/rail-minister-presents-the-2016-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 awards include the overall Best Entry for 2016\u00a0for the transformation of the disused Kings Cross Midland Goods Shed complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}