From Community Rail
- by Erin KellyHello everyone. With Community Rail Week approaching (1 – 7 June), much of our focus is on celebrating the work taking place across the community rail movement and the difference it makes. This year’s theme, Journeys for All, feels especially fitting. Community rail is about connection: connecting people to opportunities, communities to their railways, and […]
- by Erin KellyA group of adults with learning difficulties from Melksham’s Shine Friendship Café has spent the day playing bingo whilst enjoying the Wiltshire countryside from their train seat thanks to TransWilts Community Rail Partnership (CRP). Melksham’s Shine Friendship Café is a weekly social space for adults with learning difficulties and their support workers, offering fun activities […]
- by Erin KellyTwo summer bus services are opening up Swaledale and Wensleydale to visitors travelling on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle line, providing links into the Yorkshire Dales National Park every Sunday. This year, the Settle-Carlisle Line celebrates 150 years of providing passenger services, and travellers this summer will have more options on where they can travel onwards. Northern DalesBus […]
- by Erin KellyCommunity and rail representatives recently joined several generations of the family of Etchingham platelayer Joseph Weston (1878-1972) to unveil a Blue Plaque recognising his contribution to the railway in the early 1900s. Jointly organised and hosted by Southeast Communities Rail Partnership (SCRP) and Southeastern, this outdoor event was held at what used to be the […]
- by Erin KellyA community rail initiative to provide 200 free rail journeys to people across Essex who would not normally use the train has enabled many to experience rail travel for the first time. ‘200 Journeys’ was organised by the Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership (CRP) to mark Railway 200, a celebration of the birth […]
From: https://communityrail.org.uk