Hello Journey Members, Apologies, it's been two months since the last newsletter... there was a lot going on during History Month! Firstly, Journey can now insert "award winning..." before our name, after picking up the Diversity & Inclusion Award at the Rail Business Awards in Manchester on 19th February. We won alongside Alstom for the 'Pride on Rails' event at last summer's Greatest Gathering in Derby: our first industry award, not bad going for a three year old network.

On Friday 27th March, several of us were fortunate enough to enjoy a tour of the National Railway Museum in York through a uniquely queer lens. The wonderful Ashlynn Hudson-Welburn, curator at the NRM, guided us around the exhibits while sharing the stories of LGBTQ+ contributions to railways and in turn the impact that railways have had on LGBTQ+ culture. Some of the tour group pose in front of The Flying Scotsman in the NRM Great Hall Ashlynn covered a range of topics: the

On Thursday 19th February 2026 Journey won its first industry award alongside Alstom in the Diversity & Inclusion in Rail category at the  Rail Business Awards  in Manche ster. The recognition was for the fabulous world's first Pride on Rails at the Railway 200 'Greatest Gathering' at Alstom's Litchurch Lane Works in August 2025. The parade itself was the brain child of Benjamin Goodwin, Co mmunications Director at Alstom, who entrusted the Journey leadership with assemblin

Thursday 12 February 2026 saw the first  Journey LGBTQ+ History Month trivia quiz: ‘Pride on the Line’, kindly hosted by the  KPMG  Breathe network in Canary Wharf, London. Hosted by Felicia aka  Lee Nicholson-Brown , we raised a fantastic £592 for  Terrence Higgins Trust . You can still give to the JustGiving page here (remember to set the 'tip' to £0 unless you want to line JustGiving's pockets for nothing!). Eyes down! Felicia holding court The idea came from Julian Perki

LGBTQ+ History Month's theme for 2026 is ' Science & Innovation ', and so to mark this, Journey's 10 February meeting was a webinar that showcased LGBTQ+ contributions to science & innovation in transport. Paras Shah from Arup hosted the event and guided the audience through a history starting with Joe Brown from TfL telling the intriguing story of Charles Beyer. Charles was an innovator in the field of locomotive engineering from the Victorian era for whom there is now com