Updated

31August 2010

 

 

Blackburn Cathedral

River Ribble at Ribchester

Whalley Viaduct

Clitheroe Castle

For information about

the items listed below,

click on the underlined part

or image

 

Hellifield Station

 
 

 

 

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Cycling into Railway History

Padiham to Rose Grove

(Padiham Loop)

 

To view, click below

The Corresponding Leaflet is now available at the usual outlets

 

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For a summary of Fares and Times

click here

 

To read the Complete Leaflet

click here

or front cover

 

To visit the DalesRail website

click here

 

Left: New Front Cover with corrected date

Updated 22 July 2010

The Final Services for 2010 will run on Sunday 10 October

and NOT as shown in the original DalesRail leaflet

NORTHERN RAIL Leaflet TIMETABLES are correct

 

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COMMUNITY RAIL LANCASHIRE

now has its own website

For a direct link to this well-designed, attractive and informative site

click here or the above photograph or the CRCLP Logo at the top of the page

NK writes:

Visitors to the RVR website may also be interested in the following recent additions to the above Community Rail Lancashire website:

  • COMMUNITY REPARATION FOR BRIERFIELD

In a first for the East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership the Friends of Brierfield Station have been working with young people who have been placed on Community Reparation Orders. Members of the friends group worked alongside the young people to help maintain the garden areas at Brierfield Station.  To continue reading, click here

 

  • BEN FOGLE ENDORSES Community Rail Line

 Reported in the Keighley News on Thursday 12th August 2010

TV presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle enjoys letting the train take the strain, and he revealed this week that one of his favourite journeys is Morecambe to Keighley To continue reading, click here

 

  • TIDE TIMES

The Lancashire Community Rail Partnerships are pleased to announce a new service is now available via the links page. High tide times are crucial to those visiting the coast, whether for the day, for a holiday, fishing or to catch a ferry. 

The tide times pages give the current days high and low tide times, and also the next six days as a forecast.

Click here to access the link.

 

  • COMMUNITY RAIL AWARDS SHORT LISTINGS

The Lancashire Community Rail Partnerships have been successful in getting five of their nominations for the National Community Rail Awards short listed.

The Community Rail Awards 2010, a prestigious national event, are being held in Westcliff-on-Sea on Friday 24th September 2010.

For details and further information click here

 
  • Meet Me at the Station

A new gallery has been compiled showing all the photographs used in the Meet Me at the Station Exhibition that took place in the Platform Gallery in Clitheroe between 22 May & 12 June 2010.

To view New Gallery, click here

The theme was chosen to complement the project undertaken by local artist Alistair Nicholson and primary school children from the Ribble Valley. 

 

  • ECO STATION NEARS COMPLETION

The new ‘eco' station building at Accrington is nearly complete. It is due to be finished next week and then Northern Rail will carry out their fit out of the booking office. It is envisgaed that the new station will open to the public in early September.

    Photo: R.Watts

  • ON THE LINE

The first issue of a new Newsletter for the Clitheroe Line has been published.

This Newsletter has information regarding the strengthening of some of the peak services on the Manchester to Clitheroe route that the Greater Manchester Integrated Ttransport Authority (GMITA) has championed and the Department for Transport has sponsored. The additional trains being used are the ones released when the Manchester to Oldham line closed for conversion to a new Metrolink Tram line. The strengthening means extra capacity on some of the busiest services, and also sees the notorious 15:40 departure from Manchester Victoria to Clitheroe upgraded from a 1 x 153 unit to a 1 x 150 set.

The Newsletter also explains what the Clitheroe Line Community Rail Partnership is, who is involved, and a little about the work they carry out. The Newsletter is available at manned stations on the route, and will also be handed out to customers on the train.

xxxxxxxTo download a copy of the On The Line Issue 1 – Summer 2010 Newsletter click below:

 

  • DalesRail Walks

Slightly revised Walks Photo Gallery. To view click here

Updated: 31/08/2010

 

 

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Click above to read

(Pages in sequential order)

To view/print out in booklet format, visit the CRL website by clicking here

 

 

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MEET ME AT THE STATION

 

NK writes, incorporating text from the Community Rail Lancashire Website, and reproduced with kind permission of Simon Clarke:

 

I had the pleasure of attending the official opening of the 'Meet Me at the Station' project by Lois Rimmer, Ribble Valley Mayor on Saturday 22nd May 2010.

I did manage to take a few very modest photographs, none of which I felt completely captured the true nature and flavour of the displays, a personal visit to the gallery therefore is really needed, and, whilst I often let the photographs themselves tell the story, here it will be helpful to be aware of the background.

 

The project, which saw Ribble Valley Schools working with local artist Alastair Nicholson to create a huge number of ‘mini-me' plasticine models,  is displayed in the Platform Gallery in Clitheroe.

As well as the plasticine figures, are models of the five stations between Blackburn and Clitheroe, along with an animated short film of the  journey along the Ribble Valley Line, which are also on display.

Children are being encouraged to get involved when they visit the exhibition by making their own ‘mini-me' models and adding them to the ‘platforms' below a specially-created vinyl banner on the outside of the gallery.  

 

The 'Meet Me at the Station' project has also been expanded to include a photographic exhibition with the same theme.

 

Two schools, which have been involved in the ‘Brian the Bull' project, have written railway-themed poetry as feedback, and these are displayed on the fence, close to the railway, at the rear of the gallery as a ‘poetry ribbon' .

Inside the gallery is a large amount of artwork by the children, and this includes charcoal sketches of the pieces of railwayania that have been excavated from the disused Great Harwood Loop Line close to Padiham Green Primary School.

The children from St. Mary's RC Primary and Padiham Green Primary Schools have also been able to record their poetry, thanks to links with The Grand in Clitheroe. The recordings will be played both inside and outside at the Gallery over the three weeks of the exhibition between Saturday 22nd May and 12th June 2010.

The Platform Gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10.00 to 16.00.

The project has been funded by the Aggregates Levy and Ribble Valley Borough Council and is supported by the Clitheroe Line & East Lancashire Community Rail Partnerships and Ribble Valley Rail.

 

 

 

The full collection of photos, shown below, complete with captions and details of photographers,

can now be viewed on the Community Rail Lancashire website.

For an express link, click here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Railway artefacts discovered by Padiham Green Primary Schools

during an archeological dig

close to the site of the former Padiham Station

and subsequently drawn (see left)

 

Blackburn Station Figures

 

produced by

 

Daisyfield Primary School, Blackburn

 

 

Left:

'Through a Train Window' drawings

 

 

 

 

 

 

To visit the corresponding section on the Community Rail Lancashire website,

click here

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LANCASHIRE XRAIL RAMBLERS

 

To download a pdf version of the leaflet below, click here

 

 

 

 
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East Lancashire & Clitheroe Line Community Rail Partnership

GUIDED WALKS PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

 

Ticket to Ride

East Lancashire & Clitheroe Line CRP Guided Walks

Please see below for advice on the correct ticket for your journey when the walk has a different start and finishing station:

Wednesday 21st April – Alight Brierfield & Return Hapton

  • Travelling from Colne direction – purchase a return ticket to Hapton
  • Travelling from Preston/Blackburn direction – purchase a return ticket to Brierfield

Saturday 8th May 2010 – Alight Langho & Return Clitheroe

  • Travelling from all directions – purchase a return ticket to Clitheroe

Wednesday 19 May 2010 – Alight Burnley Manchester Road & Return Accrington

  • Travelling from Colne direction – purchase a return ticket to Accrington
  • Travelling from the Preston/Blackburn direction – purchase a return ticket to Burnley Manchester Road

Saturday 3 July – Alight Burnley Central & Return Nelson

  • Travelling from Colne direction – purchase a return ticket to Burnley Central
  • Travelling from Preston/Blackburn direction – purchase a return ticket to Nelson

Monday 5 July 2010 – Alight Rishton & Return Ramsgreave & Wilpshire

  • Travelling from Colne direction – purchase a return ticket to Ramsgreave & Wilpshire
  • Travelling from Preston/Blackburn direction – purchase a return ticket to Rishton

Saturday 19 August 2010 – Alight Rishton & Return Darwen

  • Travelling from both directions – purchase a return ticket to Darwen change at Blackburn on return leg

Wednesday 15 September 2010 – Alight Cherry Tree & Return Pleasington

  • Travelling from Colne direction – purchase a return ticket to Pleasington
  • Travelling from Preston/Blackburn direction – purchase a return ticket to Cherry Tree
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GREAT WALL OF DAISYFIELD

Click above picture for details

 

OPENING CEREMONY XXXXX XX3 March 2010

Photos: Brian Haworth

 

 

GREAT WALL OF DAISYFIELD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ACoRP Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To visit the website of ACoRP click photo

 

 

ACoRP Awards for 2009

(Presented at a Gala Dinner held in Carlisle on Friday 25th September)

 

 

 

To view the Complete List of Awards, click here

or visit the ACoRP website

 

 

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To view the data for the whole of the UK, click below

http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_0809.xls

from which the above data has been laboriously extracted by Simon Clarke - many thanks.

NK

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Additional Guided Walks

linked to the

Leeds - Morecambe Line

have also been arranged for the area bounded approximately by

Giggleswick - Bentham - Carnforth - Morecambe

and details may be found by clicking here

 

 

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Community Rail Day - 17th May 2008

 

Photos

To view a selection of photos taken during

Community Rail Day 17 May 2008,

click here

 

Photographic Competition

Click here to see the results.

To view the first six winning entries, click here.

 

Report by Northern Rail on the Community Rail Day

After the very successful weekend, Ribble Valley Rail was pleased to receive a copy of Northern's comprehensive report, written by Dr. Paul Salveson, and extracts, relevant to Lancashire, may be read by clicking here.

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Programme of Events

for Community Rail in NORTH WEST ENGLAND

To view the very well-produced and informative leaflet, which gave full details, click here

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Rail Ramblers - The Home of Lancashire Rail Ramblers

now have their own website, which is very well-laid out, most informative and well-worth a visit even by non-ramblers

http://www.railramblers.com

There is also reference to the RVR website viz.

 

 

ACoRP website

 

RVR Cab Ride Trailer

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Watch This Space Below

 

Select a picture, and then double-click on the arrow at its centre

Above and below are very brief extracts from RVR's series of DVD Cab Rides.

For further information, and how to purchase any of these DVDs,

please click here.

 

 

FROM THE ARCHIVES

 

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.

 

 

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To view photos of

Santa Services

2009

 

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Santa Services 2007

Community Rail Day on the Ribble Valley Line - 19 May 2007

Clitheroe Festival Weekend

17 and 18 May 2008

 

To view the exceptionally attractive leaflet published by Cltheroe The Future, which contained full details of the very extensive programme of events,

please click here

 

 

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Community Rail Day

 

Blackburn & Clitheroe

Stations

 

Saturday 19th May 2007

 

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A montage of photos of some of the activities, which were held on the day,

can now be viewed by

clicking here

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Community Rail Weekend 2008

Photographic Competition

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1stt

 

Steam on the

Royal Train

crossing

Ribblehead Viaduct

 

 

by Dean Weaver

2nd

 

 

 

Father & Two sons

watching Class 47

at Preston

 

 

by Ken Roberts

3rd

Lord Nelson

at

Bentham

 

 

by Wendy Smith

4th

 

Mother & son

on

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

 

 

by Ken Roberts

5th =

 

Princess Elizabeth

at Langwathby

 

 

by Matt Clarke

5th =

 

Santa Services 2007

 

 

by Nigel Kirby

 

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‘NORTHERN - Stakeholder Specials'

To Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Haworth

Sunday 13 July 2008

   
 

RVR was one of many similar organisations invited to join one of three specially-chartered trains to Keighley ( click here for timings ).

A small contingent travelled from Ribble Valley Line stations to join at Bolton their allocated special (four immaculate 156s) where they were cordially greeted by Northern Staff, and subsequently provided on board with very edible and enjoyable snacks, a quiz and attractively-produced Commemorative Literature.

On arrival at Keighley, guests were entertained to a delightful Buffet Lunch, to the strains of the melodious Harrogate Brass Band, and then allowed the freedom of the Worth Valley Railway for the day.

On the return journey, water and wine were provided, both beverages being most welcome on a relatively-rare warm and sunny day, along with individual copies of the DVD "Northern - A Community Railway", detailing a few examples of their commitment.

I am sure that all guests were highly impressed with Northern's organisation of the event, which would have involved extensive planning at various levels and stages, sheer hard work and professionalism, so much in evidence on the day itself, and which, in turn, helped to promote a most convivial atmosphere.

Grateful thanks, therefore, are extended to Northern, and also the Worth Valley Railway, as good as ever, for their hospitality, providing everyone with a splendid and quite memorable day-out, and whose joint efforts are so very much appreciated.

NBK

   

 

 
 
Arrival at Keighley
RVR Chairman, Peter Moore, conversing with Northern's MD, Heidi Mottram.
 
 

The excellent Harrogate Brass Band, and trips in a brake van, provided additional entertainment.

Awaiting the arrival of a Worth Valley train on Platform 4.
 
 

Peter Moore, surrounded by three RVR members, Heather Fairclough, Marian Fox & Kathleen Sharples, all enjoying their refreshments.

Peter Moore now joined by senior Northern staff, Tricia Riley, Area Director North and Wayne Dixon, Area Station Manager North

 
 
Awaiting departure for Oxenhope

Ken Roberts in a dual role as a member of both RVR and the Worth Valley Railway.

 
 

RVR stalwarts, Brian Haworth, Brian Race, joined by Ken Roberts, outside the well-patronised Buffet Car.

RVR Hon. Sec. and current Worth Valley chairman, Peter Eastham, joined by Dr. Paul Salveson, MBE and Phil Mills from Northern.

 
 

RVR member, Dean Weaver, accompanied by his grandson, and who both thoroughly enjoyed their day-out on the trains.

Another prominent RVR member, Byron Littlewood, pictured on the ramp to Platform 4, en-route to join a Worth Valley Line train.

 
 
 
 
A Northern Skipton - Leeds EMU calls at Platform 1

A Northern Carlisle-bound train passing under the road bridge at Keighley but the rail journey would be truncated at Settle due to engineering work on the S&C

   
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