Martyn Bane was one of the original members of the 5AT planning team, participating in many of the early meetings and attending the Brienz conference in 2003 as part of the 5AT delegation.
He left in 2006 to concentrate on bringing Porta Water Treatment to greater prominence around the world.
Martyn is also a member of the 6024 Preservation Society's engineering team and a regular contributor to its journals. He travels regularly to visit steam railways around the world, and runs an encyclopaedic website on Modern Steam at www.martynbane.co.uk.