17 February 2020
Minor changes to the rail timetable on some
lines apply from today. In particular the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle
train which is used for many of our Saturday walks will
now depart from Leeds at the slightly later time of 0919
and the Leeds-Bentham-Morecambe train will now depart from
Leeds at 0819.
25 January 2020
The leaders meeting and first
aid course for walkers will be held on Sunday 8 March 2020.
Further information and booking details can be found in
the Members Events
section.
14 January 2020
UNLIMITED RAIL TRAVEL WITH
NORTHERN RAIL FOR £10 PER PERSON FOR A DAY OR £17.50
FOR A WEEKEND
Northern Rail and JPIMedia
are running a flat fare special offer for 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. To qualify
you have to collect THREE tokens from qualifying JPIMedia
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 (click here to view) 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.
The offer runs from Monday
20 January until Sunday 22 March 2020 and is valid every
day during this special offer period. The offer is not limited
to the Settle-Carlisle line, but it is restricted to services
operated by Northern Rail.
Please
click here for full details of the offer, including
the list of qualifying newspapers to obtain tokens (external
web link)
Please
click here to view the Northern Rail Network Map
(PDF file, 1.9 MB)
10 January 2020
All members who booked for
the annual dinner on Saturday 18 January 2020 have now been
allocated a place.
3 January 2020
Please send any contributions
for the next members' newsletter to the editor, Jane Coupe,
as soon as possible, but no later than 10 January 2020.
11 November 2019
Full details of all our public
walks from January to June 2020 have now been added to the
Train Walks section.
1 November 2019 - Past Events
Update
A selection of photos from
the recent members' weekend in Melrose can be accessed in
the Past Events (Holidays
2019) section.
21 October 2019
Winter Travel Offers on
the Settle/Carlisle and Morecambe lines - Details now available
The Winter Offer for Dales
Rail Card holders runs from 4 November 2019 to 4 April 2020
and the Offer for West Yorkshire Concessionary Pass holders
runs from 11 November 2019 to 4 April 2020.
Exclusion dates are 7, 8, 14,
15, 21, 22 December 2019.
Please
click here for further information (external website
link)
16 October 2019
Please send any items for inclusion
in the next members' newsletter (New Year 2020) to the editor,
Jane Coupe, as soon as possible, but no later than 10 January
2020.
7 October 2019 - Members
Events 2020
Details of the monthly Thursday
walks and Lake District walks programmes for 2020 can now
be seen in the Members Events
section.
5 October 2019
The October 2019 members' newsletter
has recently been distributed by post and email. There have
been some problems sending out the email version, so if
you have not received one as expected, please contact Elizabeth
Myers.
Members are requested to book
for the Annual Dinner on 18 January 2020 at the Railway
Hotel, Skipton as soon as possible, as places are limited
and will be allocated on a "first come, first served"
basis. Full details are in the October newsletter.
2 September 2019 - Lake
District Members Walks Update
Details of changes to the Lake
District walk on Saturday 21 September 2019 can now be seen
in the Members Events
section.
28 August 2019
A selection of photos from
the recent members' Lake District walk from Elterwater can
be accessed in the Past Events
(Other Events) 2019 section.
11 August 2019
A selection of photos from
the recent members' Lake District walk to Wetherlam can
be accessed in the Past Events
(Other Events) 2019 section.
25 July 2019
Please send any items for inclusion
in the next members' newsletter (October 2019) to the editor,
Jane Coupe, as soon as possible, but no later than 19 September
2019.
21 July 2019
Details of our three main members'
holidays for 2020 can now be found in the
Holidays section. Booking forms will be issued with
future editions of the members' newsletter.
8 July 2019
A selection of photos from
the recent members' holiday in Weymouth, Dorset can be accessed
in the Past Events (Holidays
2019) section.
