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GUIDED WALKS
Next walk will be held on Saturday 4 July Starting & finishing at CHERRY TREE |
xTRAIN OPERATING COMPANIES' xxFor other TOCs, click here |
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East Lancashire Historical Community Community Rail Officers, Brian Haworth & Simon Clarke, have just published an elaborate and extremely well-researched History of East Lancashire Railways |
It is a superb publication, with very informative text, drawn from both authors' vast knowledge of the lines, and also illustrated with copious photographs from their own and other collections. |
Well-worth reading, one of the best leaflets that has ever been produced, and it is free!! To read a pdf version, |
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To read the very interesting leaflet "Cycling into Railway History" researched, written and produced by Simon Clarke and Brian Haworth |
Track Improvement Work Blackburn to Clitheroe Spring 2009 |
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To view a comprehensive record of the above work click photo |
Track Improvement Work Blackburn to Clitheroe November 2008 |
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To view a comprehensive record of the above work click photo |
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Community Rail Partnership * * * * * Historical Posters * * * * * * * * *
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The posters have been designed by Brian Haworth & Simon Clarke, with maps drawn by Nigel Kirby
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Reading Between the Lines * * * * Newsletters of Lancashire's Community Railways * * * *
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Ramble & Roam Ride * Relax * Ramble & Roam * on East Lancashire's Railways |
For further details about this exciting initiative and the corresponding leaflet, available from the usual outlets, which contains a series of Self-Guided Walks from East Lancashire and Clitheroe Line stations
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Community Rail Day 2008 Photographic Competition |
RAIL RAMBLERS
Lancashire Rail Ramblers
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Planning a day-out ? Weather Forecast: |
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Train Running Information Click on format required * * * in alphabetical order |
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Use to find if trains are Late or cancelled for a very wide selection of stations Choice of format |
Includes Complete Travel Planner for Rail, Road, Bus, & Air |
Also use to access Timetables for all TOCs in the North West |
Current disruption on the National Rail Network |
Gives the nearest rail-head(s) and transfer details (i.e. distance, time etc.) |
From Clitheroe, Blackburn & Darwen Duo Tickets Day Rangers plus other special offers |
For travel in and around LONDON |
Website Statistics: xx For the week beginning 21 June 2009 xx2411 - Sessions (i.e. no.of visitors to the website for this week) : Brief Analysis (with Graphs) x76171 - Hits (i.e. no. of files accessed for this week) : Analysis (with Graphs) xxxxxxxx Analysis of pages viewed the most,xclick here XXXXXXXXXXXForx Key to File Namesxxclick here |
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PRESTONX STATIONXCARXPARK
New large car park open
Maximum Number of
Spaces 475
A large selection of
TIMETABLES
may be viewed by
COMMUNITY RAIL LANCASHIRE
now has its own website
For a direct link to this well-designed, attractive and informative site
click here or on the above photograph
Next service will run on Sunday 5 July TWO Trains in each direction
No DalesRail Service on 12, 19 & 26 July
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New publication
'Most attractive, informative & very well-designed'
Reading Between the Lines
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Newsletter of
Lancashire's
Community Railways
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Issue 6 Spring 2009
To read TT 27Ax click here
RAILCARDS
From the 17th May 2009, there will be changes to the prices of Railcards, and to the minimum fares applicable to certain Railcards.The price of 16-25, Family & Friends and Senior Railcards will increase from £24 to £26.
Minimum fares for 16-25 and HM Forces Railcards which are currently £8 and £16 will change to a £12 minimum fare for Single & Return tickets before 10:00 am Monday to Friday.
Minimum fares do not apply to Advance purchase fares.
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UK Rail Network & Routes with a passenger service shown in NRTT Timetable
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Large scale maps showing rail network in selected conurbations Network served by Northern Rail A colour-coded map of the UK rail network showing which train companies operate on each line of route.
© Barry S Doe
Timetables x xx Valid until 17 Dec 2009
To view in both NORTHERN and NATIONAL Rail formats
CHEAPEST FARE FINDER
'Cheapest Fare Finder' allows you to search for a ticket based on cost, and shows you journeys where the selected ticket is available. You can choose up to 4 individual dates, and specify the times of the day that you'd prefer to travel. You may find even cheaper tickets if you try different times of the day.
You may find that there is a choice of Train Company for your journey, and to make the choice easier, National Rail shows you the facilities that are usually available when travelling on the respective trains.
For further information, and to try out this important new feature provided by National Rail, click here
Well-worth exploring this powerful & fascinating fare-searching tool !
FARES
To view the local fares from Ribble Valley Stations
and the
Season Ticket Calculator for ALL UK Stations
Visiting / Travelling through London?
Transport for London (for trains, buses, etc.)
well-worth having - considerable savings - highly recommended - can be purchased and topped up via the Internet before travelling to London
Without an Oyster Card, the minimum adult fare on the Tube is now £4, and for buses is £2. Look at the Oyster website to discover the savings and other benefits on offer with one of these cards.
TRAIN OPERATING COMPANIES' (TOCs) websites:
For the complete list of websites for TOCs, click here
Frequently accessed links (click as required)
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GUIDED WALKS
Programme
March
to July 2009
(2.98 MB)
Additional Guided Walks
linked to the
Leeds - Morecambe Line
have also been arranged for the area bounded approximately by
Giggleswick - Bentham - Carnforth - Morecambe
for which details may be found by clicking here
ELCRP HISTORICAL POSTERS
NELSON has now been added
to this excellent collection of Historical Posters
For a direct link to this section, click here
World Railways
New Photographic Feature
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS
("The Ghan", "Indian-Pacific", & many more)
For direct link, click here
A very large and diverse selection of photographs,
taken by RVR Members, featuring
WORLD RAILWAYS
including
Thailand, Poland, Canada, Alaska, Ireland, Isle of Man, Europe, Germany, Australia, China, . . .
can all be viewed in Gallery 13.
Reading Between The Lines
The Newsletter of Lancashire's Community Railways
Issue 5
is now available from most of the usual outlets.
To read on-line
Publications etc
ACORP's Newsletter "Train on LIne September 2008"
has just been published.
To read a copy, click here.
First grant from the Designated Community Rail Development Fund
has been awarded to the
Clitheroe Line Community Rail Partnership
for their DVD Rail Journey Project.
For details, click here
"Value Of Community Rail Partnerships"
To read the Executive Summary of the report prepared by ACORP,
and access related links, click here
Timetables, Train Running, Northern Rail Network Map,
and other useful Travel Information for the Ribble Valley Line, and elsewhere in the U.K., may be obtained directly on-line by clicking here. or the underlined words.
For current service alterations (signalling problems, broken-down trains etc.), click here for the latest bulletins.
Train running times for Plymouth, Exeter St.D., Bristol T.M., Birmingham N.St., Crewe, Reading, and also Carlisle may be accessed by clicking here.
Useful for monitoring progress of CrossCountry & West Coast Main Line trains.
Huddersfield, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Sheffield, Derby & Leicester have now been added - click here -
- and similarly useful for tracking progress of Northern, TransPennine, and other TOCs.
Fares from selected Ribble Valley Line Stations
applicable from 2 Jan 2009
Standard Day & Weekly Returns
Updated 28/12/2008
Clitheroe £3.70
7 Day Return £14.50
£10.90 before 09:00
£8.80 after 09:00
7 Day Return £38.60
£6.50
7 Day Return £28.20
£8.30 before 09:00
£7.70 after 09:00
7 Day Return £32.60
£10.10 before 09:00
£7.80 after 09:00
7 Day Return £36.50
£5.10
7 Day Return £22.60
£5.30 before 09:00
£4.80 after 09:00
7 Day Return £22.30
£2.30
7 Day Return £10.10
£9.10 before 09:00
£6.40 after 09:00
7 Day Return £33.80
£6.70 before 09:00
£6.60 after 09:00
7 Day Return £29.70
£4.50
7 Day Return £19.80
To calculate the Season Ticket Rate between any two stations for all possible periods of availablity
DalesRail, Wayfarers, Lakes Day Ranger, North Country 4 in 8 Rover, Freedom of the North West Rover, Eurostar, All Line Rail Rover etc.
may now be viewed by clicking here.
Rail Cards
For detailed information
Travelling to London Euston?
For details of various Virgin Fares (Single & Return) available from
Lancaster, Preston, Wigan NW., Manchester, Liverpool etc.,
is a useful site for discovering the fares, and for purchasing tickets via the Internet. Click on the underlined part to access.
Virgin Trains fares website is also a useful guide for obtaining the information, but not necessarily recommended for on-line booking.
However, tickets obtained at manned stations can sometimes be much cheaper.
‘NORTHERN - Stakeholder Specials'
To Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Haworth
on Sunday 13 July 2008
To read a personalised report, with photographs, of RVR's participation, click here
For further information, and details as to how to obtain these DVDs by post, please click here.
Video Clips from these DVDs may be viewed by clicking here.
These DVDs, and also copies of RVRNews, may be purchased by visiting Clitheroe Ribble Valley Borough Council Offices or Blackburn Visitors Centre.
Community Rail
For further information on the following items, please click on the underlined part:
East Lancashire Historical Community Leaflet
Historical Posters at Bamber Bridge, Brierfield and Entwistle
Cycling - Visit this section to view the following leaflets:
Programme of Cycle Rides 2008
Cycling around Blackburn and Darwen
Cycling into Railway History
Reading Between the Lines - Newsletters of Lancashire's Community Railways
Lancaster (dep 08:15 / arr 21.10) x Preston (dep 09:00 / arr 20:30)
Bamber Bridge (dep 09:20 / arr 20:10 xBlackburn (dep 09:40 / arr 19:50)
Clitheroe (dep 10:00 / arr 19:30)
To view the full brochure click here
BARBARA CASTLE
- Naming Ceremony
Sunday 21st September 2008
at Blackburn Station
After the naming, Janet Anderson MP, Sonya Hinton, Steve Butcher (Northern Rail) and Lord Taylor of Blackburn, together with younger relatives of Barbara Castle, stand for photographs.
The named unit has been ‘wrapped' with an attractive display, featuring Barbara Castle and members of the Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG), and is shown standing at Blackburn Station before its inaugural journey to Manchester Oxford Road.
The vestibule within the train features a poster, which explains the work done by Barbara Castle.
Scroll below for a more legible version of the text contained in the above poster.
Speeches were made by (left to right) Ruth Kelly (Secretary of State for Transport), Neil Scales (Chairman, PTEG) and Heidi Mottram (Managing Director, Northern Rail).
Photos and captions by D. J. Butterworth
Baroness Castle of Blackburn
Born into a politically active family, and brought up in Pontefract and Bradford, Barbara Castle was the youngest woman in Parliament when she became MP for Blackburn in 1945.
In 1965 she was the first woman to become Minister of Transport and only the fourth woman to sit in Cabinet.
Clever, fiery, hard-working, decisive, and with a flair for publicity, she made the most of her time at the Ministry by pragmatically applying her strongly held views on the importance of a planned approach to transport.
Among her achievements were giving the railways a future by putting them on a more secure financial footing, and by preventing some of the worst excesses of Dr. Beeching's closure plans.
She also saved hundreds of miles of canals by giving them a new role for amenity and leisure.
Many lives were saved through new seatbelt and drink-driving legislation
She also created new and powerful urban transport authorities, giving them the job of providing inregrated public transport networks that cities need.
As a result, over the last four decades the Passenger Transport Executives and Authorities have been able to invest billions in providing better public transport for the largest conurbations in the North and Midlands.
A PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel around town, at the start, the finish, or both ends of your train journey. Plusbus is now available to 195 towns and cities across the U.K., costs around £2, and railcard discounts are available. Additional features and locations will be available from 20 May 2007. Well-worth considering, and more detailed information can be obtained by clicking here to visit the PlusBus website. Leaflets are also available at manned stations and information/visitor centres.
The "add on" tickets can be purchased at the usual ticket offices, and shortly it is expected that they will be available for purchase on-line.
Blackburn Visitor Centre
50 - 54 Church Street, Blackburn BB1 5AS
Opening times : Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm : Saturday 9am - 4pm
Copies of RVRNews and RVR Cab Ride DVDs are on sale here.
Contact:
Tel: (01254) 53277 : Fax: (01254) 682953
Email: visit@blackburn.gov.uk
Click here to visit their website
RVR Membership
If, once you have viewed the various sections of this website, you would like information about how to join RVR, please click here..
Chairman:
Peter Moore, 21 Buccleuch Avenue, Clitheroe BB7 2DZ
Tel : 01200 424151 : email : peter21.moore@virgin.net
Vice-Chairman:
Marjorie Birch, “Raydale”, Crow Trees Brow, Chatburn, Clitheroe BB7 4AA
Tel : 01200 441549 : email : rjm.raydale@tiscali.co.uk
Secretary:
Peter Eastham, 79 Rogersfield, Langho, Blackburn BB6 8HD
Tel : 01254 240830 : email : p_eastham@sky.com
Hon. Treasurer:
David J. Butterworth, 72 Fairfield Drive, Clitheroe, BB7 2PS
Tel : 01200 425750 : email : djbutterworth@talktalk.net
Membership Secretary and Ribble Valley RailNews Editor:
Bill Briggs, 55 Bank Head Lane, Hoghton, Preston PR5 0AB
Tel : 01254 854474 : email : bill.rvrnews@virgin.net
Friends of Stations Co-ordinator:
Brian Haworth, 182 Whalley Road, Langho, Blackburn BB6 8AA
Tel : 01254 247844 email : brian.haworth@talktalk.net
Click here to obtain the latest FREE version of Adobe Acrobat Reader by which the pdf files, used in this website, may be accessed.
It is also strongly recommended that "Windows Update" files be downloaded on a regular basis. In Windows XP, these can be located in "Help & Support".
Failure to do so could result in problems reading pdf files.
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Accrington |
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Hebden Bridge
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TIMETABLES x xxx17 May to 12 Dec 2009
xxxxxxNORTHERN RAIL
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Northern Rail
Timetable No.
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Manchester to Blackburn and Clitheroe
York to Blackpool Colne, Burnley and Blackburn to Preston and Blackpool
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Bolton to Manchester & Manchester Airport Manchester to Wigan and Southport & Liverpool Central Manchester to Rochdale via Oldham and Moston (Valid until 3 October 2009) Preston to Liverpool (Lime Street) and Preston to Ormskirk for Liverpool:(Central) via Merseyrail Preston & Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness & Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast, with connections to the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Manchester to Chester via Stockport & Altrincham Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria, Preston to Hazel Grove, Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton
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Timetables for other Northern Services
TIMETABLESxxxxxxxxx 17 May to 12 Dec 2009
xxxxxxxxxNATIONAL RAIL
National Rail Timetable
Table No.
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London Kings Cross > Humberside, Yorkshire, North East England and Scotland Leeds & Bradford > Skipton, Lancaster, Morecambe & Carlisle Leeds & Bradford > Rochdale, Manchester Vic. & Blackpool North via Halifax & Brighouse Carlisle, Hexham and MetroCentre > Newcastle > Morpeth, Alnmouth and Chathill North West England and Birmingham > East Midlands > East Anglia > Stansted Airport xxxx Scotland, The North East, North West England > The South West and South Coast London Euston & West Midlands > North West England & Scotland Manchester & Bolton > Wigan, Southport, Preston, Blackpool North, Barrow Oxenholme: Lake District > Kendal & Windermere Manchester > Manchester Airport Manchester > Hazel Grove & Buxton Manchester > Northwich, Chester Manchester & Bolton > Blackburn > Clitheroe
Please note that this version contains errors not corrected by National Rail. Suggest using the Northern format above.
Blackpool > Preston > Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley & Colne
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Lancaster > Morecambe, Isle of Man, Belfast
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Preston > Ormskirk Barrow-in-Furness > Whitehaven & Carlisle xxxxx ALL Timetable Amendments x(Tables, Page Numbers & Notes refer to the National Rail Timetable)
Date 12 May 2009
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GUIDED WALKS
Next walk will be held on Saturday 4 July Starting & finishing at CHERRY TREE |
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Timetables
for the East Lancs Line for the Ribble Valley Line to which there is reference in the leaflet, clicking on the timetable required.
Weather Forecast for the next walk
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