It is with great sadness that we report that Alan Francis Pegler passed away on Sunday 18th March 2012 after a short illness. He was 91.
It was Alan's intervention that made the restoration of the Ffestiniog Railway a possibility, from which the initial funds needed to transfer ownership of the FR to the current administration were provided.
Alan was President of both the Ffestiniog Railway Society and the Festiniog Railway Company. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List in 2006.
Alan Francis Pegler OBE FRSA (1920/1921 – March 18 2012) was a British railway preservationist, best known for saving LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman[1] and his involvement with the Ffestiniog Railway. He was awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list.[2] He was a Member of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1938.
Pegler died on Sunday March 18 2012 at the age of 91 after a short illness.[3]
