At the Community Rail Awards in Glasgow on 4 October 2018, Steam Trust Chairman Chris Austin was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by ScotRail Managing Director Alex Hynes for his work on community rail and for building bridges between community and heritage railways. The awards are sponsored by the Association of Community Rail Partnerships of which Chris was a director between 2009 and 2016. The picture shows Alex (right), Chris (centre) and Jools Townsend, the Chief Executive of ACoRP (left).