Governing document BODMIN AND WENFORD RAILWAY TRUST
Charity number: 298459
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Governing document
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MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH NOVEMBER 1987 AND AMENDED 1993. as amended on 01 Jun 2024 as amended on 01 Jun 2024
Charitable objects
2.1 The Objects of the Charity are to educate the public in the history and development of railways and in particular, but not exclusively, the Bodmin and Wenford, and Bodmin and Wadebridge railways, by:
(a) the preservation of the historic railway lines between Bodmin General station and Bodmin Parkway station and Boscarne Junction (“the Railway”), and other railways in the Bodmin and wider Cornwall area, including the acquisition, preservation, restoration, maintenance and repair of:
(i) heritage locomotives and rolling stock;
(ii) heritage railway buildings, bridges and other historic railway structures;
(iii) heritage railway signalling systems; and
(iv) railway archives, historical records and artefacts,
(b) the operation of heritage trains over the Railway and to provide rides demonstrations and open days and recreational facilities for the public; and
(c) to develop and maintain a museum for the exhibition of items relating the history and development of railways and in particular but not exclusively the Bodmin and Wenford, and Bodmin and Wadebridge railways, including signs signals posters records and books photographs machinery models rolling stock locomotives and buildings, such museum to be open to the public.
Area of benefit
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