Membership

The Railway Heritage Committee is currently chaired on an Acting basis by Peter Ovenstone, otherwise Company Secretary of the Heritage Railway Association.

This situation has come about following the appointment of the previous Chairman, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, to the Government as a Lord in Waiting in the Whips' Office, and spokesman in the Lords on Transport and, occasionally, Wales, and Energy and Climate Change.

The Acting Deputy Chairman is Sir Howard Newby KB CBE, otherwise Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.

There are 12 other members, drawn from the railway industry, the record offices, the museums world, the heritage railway sector - and from amongst individual railway historians.

Members are appointed by the Secretary of State for Transport.  It is the responsibility of the Secretary of State to provide reasonable administrative and secretarial support.

Peter Ovenstone, Acting CHAIRMAN

Sir Howard Newby KB CBE Acting DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Representative members
Helen Ashby, National Railway Museum
Dr David Brown, National Archives of Scotland
Prof Andrew McNaughton FREng, The railway industry *
Jeremy Swift, The railway industry *

Individual members
Chris Austin OBE
Ian Brown
Christopher Fildes OBE
Gareth Jones
Mike Lamport
Jonathan Pepler
Graham Smith MBE
Catherine Wilson OBE

*Andrew McNaughton and Jeremy Swift: employed by Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd