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The Railway Division has a prizes and awards available to recognise the achievements of engineers in the Division’s field of expertise. £1,000 of this is allocated to the following five prizes, which one or more can be chosen up to the £1,000 budget allocation. (N.B. No prize should be less than £100).

• Richard Herbert Innes Prize (Serial 218)
• W A Agnew/ C N Goodall Award (Serial 313)
• A R Bennett Premium / C S Lake (Serial 314)
• T A Stewart-Dyer / F Trevithick (Serial 315)
• J F Alcock Memorial Prize (Serial 328)

The remaining £7,200 is allocated to: 

• James Bates Grants (Serial 201 - £6,000)
• Viscount Weir Prize (Serial 226 – £1,100)  + The John Jarrett Davis Prize (£100)
• George Ramshaw Curry Memorial Lecture Honorarium (Serial 249 - £300)
• Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton Memorial Lecture Honorarium (Serial 316 - £300)

The Division also awards the following grants every even year:

• Stanley Herbert Whitelegg Memorial Grants (Serial 217)

Nominations are also made to the Trustee Board Awards Committee for the IMechE's Major Prizes and Awards by 31 March each year:

• James Clayton Prize
• Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal
• IMechE Equality and Diversity Award
• IMechE Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering
• George Stephenson Gold Medal
• James Watt International Gold Medal (Awarded biennially - next award 2012)

For further information on the Prizes and Awards please email awards@imeche.org.