The Vintage Carriages Trust Museum (VCT) is celebrating another award.

The Ingrow museum was announced as runner-up in the Special Award category of the Yorkshire Electricity/Yorkshire & Humberside Museums Council Access Awards.

The steam museum, which has won TV fame, collected the award at Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham, on Monday. The trust received an inscribed Stuart Crystal cut glass decanter and glass with a cheque for £200.

The money will be spent on the purchase of a wheelchair. VCT already provides a braille guidebook, audio tape and neck loop systems and wheelchair access.

Jackie Cope, VCT curator, says: "The elderly feature prominently in this group and these are the very people for whom the days of steam and compartment carriages bring back memories."

Meanwhile, the VCT has received a £20,000 grant from the Museums & Galleries Comm-ission/Science Museum PRISM fund for the restoration of one of its carriages. The money will go towards the exterior restoration of the Great Northern Railway carriage number 2856, which was built in 1898.

In another development, the VCT has launched its own Internet website. The site, at http://www.neotek.demon.co.uk/vct, is to be frequently updated and currently includes colour photographs and information about VCT's carriages and locomotives.

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