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July 2026 - Train walk updates for Saturday 18 July
(updated item)
LANESHAW BRIDGE TO SKIPTON MODERATE WALK
Additional information from the leader
(Brenda):
Please leave the train in Keighley and
walk up to the bus station with a leader to catch the
M4 Burnley bus at 10.20 to Laneshaw Bridge. The walk
finishes in Skipton for return trains.
ILKLEY CIRCULAR MODERATE/STRENUOUS WALK
Please catch the 09.25 Leeds to Shipley
train, then the 09.48 Shipley to Ilkley bus replacement
service, arriving at 10.22 from where the walk will
begin. Similar arrangements will apply to the return
journey.
1 July 2026 - Advance
notice of train walk change
On 19 September 2026, due
to ongoing engineering work on the Huddersfield line,
the originally planned Slaithwaite to Sowerby Bridge
walk has now been replaced with the following:
Ben Rhydding Circular
via Swastika Stone, Buck Stones and the Welcome Way
From the 09.33 Leeds to Ilkley train
Book, alight and return Ben Rhydding
12 Miles Moderate/Strenuous
22 June 2026 (upated
item)
The May edition of the
members' newsletter has now been sent out by email and
post. The online version is now available to view and
download in the Newsletter
section. Please send any items for inclusion in the
next edition (Autumn 2026) to the editor, Fiona Robertson,
as soon as possible.
12 April 2026 - Unlimited travel with Northern Rail
Northern Rail's unlimited
travel offer for £12 via their newspaper
tokens offer is back on from Monday 20 April
to Thursday 16 July 2026. For details of which newspapers
to collect the tokens from, which dates the tokens will
be printed and how to obtain your unlimited travel ticket,
please see Northern Rail's newspaper
offer page on their website.
5 April 2026
The online edition of the
February 2026 members' newsletter can now be seen in
the Newsletter
section.
27 March 2026
Two members' holidays have
now been arranged for next year:
Arnside, Cumbria - 3 to
6 March 2027 (3 nights)
Isle of Man - 16 to 22
May 2027 (6 nights)
Please see the Holidays
section for further information. Booking details will
be in future editions of the members' newsletter.
6 February 2026 - Statistics
For details of our train
walk attendance figures in 2025, plus some analysis
of trends since 2013, please see the attached
document (PDF format).
23 November 2025
The Friends of DalesRail
Annual General Meeting was held today at the Black Horse
Hotel in Skipton and was attended by 51 members. This
was followed by an illustrated talk from Paul Rodgers
about the Wild
Ingleborough project from the Yorkshire Wildlife
Trust.
25 October 2025
The third members' holiday
for next year will take place based at the Premier
Inn, Pickering from Friday 16 to Monday 19 October
2026 (3 nights). Further details and booking information
will be in future editions of the newsletter
1 September 2025
For 2025-26, membership
of Friends of DalesRail will increase to £13 per
household per annum. For any members joining between
now and the end of November this year, the anual membership
will run until 30 November 2026.
6 July 2025 (amended
item)
Friends of DalesRail commemorated
45 years of leading walks for the public on Saturday
5 July with 4 walks from the Settle-Carlisle railway,
ending up in Hellifield with a celebration meal at the
Hellifield Station Cafe Shed24H for members. The anniversary
was featured in an article in the Craven Herald newspaper,
which you can view
online.
A selection of photos from
the meal can be seen in the Past
Events (Train Walks 2025) section.
