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The text on this page has been compiled by RVRNews Editor, Bill Briggs
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Out now! Available to non-members from the Tourist Information Centre, RVBC Offices, Church Walk, Clitheroe, and the Visitor Centre, 3-5 Salford, Blackburn: Price £2
Ribble Valley RailNews No.92, Summer 2010
Front cover: Heavy haulage at Whalley
Editorial: comments on the prospects for services linking Clitheroe with the S&C and local signage to local railways.
Peter’s Platform: Chmn Moore comments on Northern’s franchise extension, service and environmental improvements.
Notes & News: Friends of Stations, and various other items including website news, plus a miscellany of items from Railfuture, STORM, Northern, Network Rail and BTP.
Features: “Lancashire DalesRail” naming ceremony; Additional planters for Clitheroe station. Margaret’s Railway Years: Wartime and post-war memories of a former Whalley resident.
Readers Write: Concerning services (or lack of them) north of Clitheroe, south of Hellifield.
Photo features: Freight on the RVL; Lancashire DalesRail naming; planters and seat renewal at Clitheroe; Hellifield developments; “Meet me at the station” exhibition; a “First” for the RVL, and two beautiful steamers.
Railway Cuttings: a resumé of recent press cuttings of interest to RVR members compiled by the Editor.
On The Line: Brian Haworth`s comprehensive review of the traffic using the line during the previous quarter.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS & DIARY DATES 2010
Mon 6 Sep RVR Meeting, New Inn, Clitheroe 19.30
Mon 4 Oct RVR Meeting, New Inn, Clitheroe 19.30
Mon 1 Nov RVR Meeting, New Inn, Clitheroe 19.30
Mon 6 Dec RVR Meeting, New Inn, Clitheroe 19.30
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Please note that DALESRAIL will finish on Sunday, October 10th, as printed in the current Northern timetable.
It will NOT run on Sunday, October 17th as printed in the DalesRail brochure.
Info: Richard Watts/Craig Ward
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Railway exhibition at Tebay Church
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At 10.30 on Saturday 24 July 2010 the Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria, James Cropper, will open an exhibition in St James’s Church, Tebay, devoted to Tebay’s railway history and people’s recollections of it. The display will be in the baptistry, around the font, which has a cover in the shape of a railway wheel.
The church, which has a distinct “railway waiting-room” feel about it (the pews are in the form of waiting-room seats and the walls are of cream glazed brick), is open daily from 10.30 to 16.00 but, if found to be closed during these hours, or for further information, ring Reg Capstick on 015396 24497.
The exhibition is expected to run for a few months and, if sufficient interest is shown, possibly become permanent. Admission is free but a donation would be appreciated.
Coincidentally, a steam excursion is due to pass through Tebay, en route to Carlisle, sometime during the day.
Info: W S Wilding, Orton, Tebay (18.7.2010)
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