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

 

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

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

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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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. . 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 .

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

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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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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   **************   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

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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

	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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