Objects
Working closely with its subsidiary the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company and other sister organisations, the Trusts charitable objectives are:
(1) To acquire preserve and restore for the public benefit items of historical, architectural, engineering or scientific value in connection with railways; and
(2) To advance the education of the public in the history sociology and technology of narrow-gauge railways and railways in general by the acquisition, restoration, preservation, creation and exhibition of railway locomotives, carriages, rolling stock, equipment, artefacts, documents and records, together with any appropriate land, buildings and structures in particular but not exclusively those of the former Lynton & Barnstaple Railway in Devonshire ('the railway') and to provide educational and training facilities to those engaged in the restoration and operation of the railway or railways general
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Famous quotes containing the word objects:
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—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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—Denis Diderot (1713–84)
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compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)