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Arthur Lambert heard of attempts to reopen the FR in the early 1950s. A visit to the line in 1955 did not particularly impress him but he became involved later as progress became more obvious. He joined the FR Society and spent a week helping to clear the track above Penrhyn in 1957. By 1958 he was London Area Group Treasurer and for years went on LAG working parties, often driving the minibus. He was on the committee of LAG from 1958 to 1972. He became a Society director in 1960 and retired from the board in 1979. During much of that period he served as Managing Director of the Society's Management Committee. One of his first actions was to approach all group secretaries about group-committee/Society board communications and from this resulted the Groups Information Memorandum - G.I.M and he was editor for most of the first fifty issues. He joined the Health and Safety Committee in 1979 becoming secretary in 1984. He only resigned from his position on the Health and Safety Committee in March 2006 having thus completed 49 years as an FR volunteer. He rode on Rheilffordd Eryri as far as Rhyd Ddu soon after it opened from Porthmadog; he died in 2013. Photo credit: FR Magazine |