Pickering Yorkshire England United Kingdom - Music mogul and train fan Pete Waterman was guest of honour at the opening of a £110,000 carriage restoration facility.
 
The man who discovered Kylie and Rick Astley visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's new restoration works, at Pickering station yesterday.
 
Mr. Waterman, part of the Stock, Aitken, and Waterman team, has been an avid fan of railways from a young age.
 
He was greeted by Murray Brown, chairman of the North York Moors Historical Railway Trust.
 
Then he manoeuvred the first carriage to undergo restoration work through a banner to open the site.
 
He also unveiled a plaque at the entrance to the building.
 
Funding for the works has come from Yorkshire Forward and from money left to the railway by the Atkins family trust.
 
Previously, carriages needing work were left sitting in sidings for repairs.
 
A celebratory train to mark the facility's opening ran from Pickering to Grosmont yesterday, pulled by a Super D engine owned by Mr Waterman.
 
Meanwhile, the railway has also been granted £998,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which will be spent on a new visitor and education centre at the station.
 
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