27 February 2024
Our February newsletter
has now been produced and sent out to members by post
and email. This includes the booking form for the
autumn holiday at Bollington, Cheshire.
11 February 2024 -
Unlimited rail travel with Northern Rail for £10
per person for a day or £17.50 for a weekend
Northern Rail has teamed
up with National World and Reach PLC local newspaper
groups for this special offer, which includes a day's
travel anywhere on the Northern Rail Network for £10
(£5 for children, no other further discounts).
A weekend ticket for £17.50 (£8.25 for
children) is also available. The offer is not limited
to the Settle-Carlisle line, but it is restricted
to services operated by Northern Rail.
There are two slightly
different deals available, depending on which local
newspaper you collect the offer from.
NATIONAL WORLD OFFER
To qualify you have to
collect THREE tokens from qualifying National World
newspapers, who publish a number of titles including
the Yorkshire Evening Post and several titles in Yorkshire
and Lancashire. Please see the Northern
Rail website for details of when the tokens
will be in the newspapers.
You need to download
the form on the Northern Rail website and you can
then buy up to four Northern Rail Day Ranger tickets
from any staffed rail station within the Northern
Network. These Ranger tickets cannot be bought on
trains or online.
The offer runs from Monday
12 February to Friday 22 March 2024 and is valid every
day during this special offer period.
REACH PLC OFFER
To qualify you have to
collect TWO tokens from qualifying National World
newspapers, who publish a number of titles across
northern England. Please see the Northern
Rail website for details of when the tokens
will be in the newspapers.
Otherwise, the offer
is identical to the National World offer above.
Full
details of the offers, including the list of qualifying
newspapers and dates to obtain tokens
26 January 2024
The leaders' meeting
and first aid course has now been re-scheduled and
will take place on Sunday 21 April 2024 at the Swadford
Centre, Skipton. Further details will be in the next
members' newletter.
Please send any articles
for the next newsletter (Spring 2024) to the editor,
Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible, but no later
that Friday 23 February.
6 January 2024
Full details of our programme
of train walks for the remainder of this year can
now been seen in the Train
Walks section.
10 December 2023
The new rail timetable
starts today and is valid up to 1 June 2024.
17 November 2023 - Winter Travel Offer for Dales Railcard
holders
The Winter
Offer for Dales Railcard holders is back!
You can get a discount of 50% on Off-Peak Day Returns
on the Leeds Carlisle via Settle, and Leeds
Lancaster/Morecambe via Bentham routes with
a Dales Railcard, including discounts of up to 81%
for accompanying children.
If you have a Dales Railcard,
claiming your discount is easy, simply select Dales
Railcard Winter CDR as the railcard option when
purchasing your ticket online or at TVMs (Ticket
Vending Machines). Alternatively, show your Dales
Railcard when purchasing at ticket offices or show
to the conductor on board the train (when boarding
at unstaffed stations where no ticket facilities are
available).
The offer is available
every day up to and including Sunday 24 March 2024.
For full details see the Northern
website.
14 November 2023
Selected issues of our
members' newsletter from 2020 to 2023 can now be viewed
in the Newsletter
section. The online versions do not contain all the
information from the regular editions, which are sent
out to members, as some content is restricted to members
only.
10 November 2023
Our programme of forthcoming
train walks for the public from January to October
2024 can now be seen in the Train
Walks section. The remaining walks for 2024
will be published online early in the New Year.
7 November 2023
The 2024 programme of
members' Lake District walks can now be seen in the
Members section.
25 October 2023 - Events update 2024
Two further members'
holidays have now been arranged for next year:
Hartington Hall YHA Hostel,
Derbyshire - 13 to 15 September 2024 (2 nights)
Hollin House Hotel, Macclesfield,
Cheshire - 11 to 14 October 2024 (3 nights)
Please see the Holidays
section for further information. Booking details will
be in a future edition of the members' newsletter.
17 October 2023
The 2024 programme of
members' Thursday walks can now be seen in the Members
section.
10 October 2023
Our October newsletter
has now been produced and sent out to members by post
and email. This includes booking forms for the Annual
General Meeting in November, the New Year Dinner in
January, the Spring weekend in March and the summer
holiday in May.