Walkers are
reminded that train services can be affected by
short-notice timetable changes and cancellations,
so you are advised to re-check train running times
as close as possible to your intended time of
travel.
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February 2025 - Train walk updates for Saturday 15 February
- Reminder
BLUBBERHOUSES TO HARROGATE
(MODERATE) WALK
This walk will now be from
the 08.29 Leeds to Harrogate train, as the departure
time of the bus from Harrogate has now changed to 09.35.
STANBURY TO LANESHAW BRIDGE
(EASY) WALK
Information from the leaders
(Alan and Lynn):
We will be catching the
B1 bus from Keighley bus station at 10.25. This is based
on using the 09.20 Carlisle train from Leeds and getting
off at Keighley. We will catch the M4 bus back to Keighley
from Laneshaw Bridge. They run on the half hour and
hour.
4 February 2025 - 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 Reach PLC and National World newspaper groups
for this special offer, which includes a day's travel
anywhere on the Northern
Rail Network for £10 (£5 for children,
no further discounts). A weekend ticket for £17.50
(£8.75 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.
To qualify you have to
collect either TWO tokens from qualifying Reach PLC
newspapers or THREE tokens from qualifying National
World newspapers. They publish a number of titles in
Northern England. Please see the Northern
Rail website for the full list of titles and
details of when the tokens will be published in each
paper.
You then need to download
a form on the Northern
Rail website which will then allow you to 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
10 February to Thursday 20 March 2025 and is valid every
day during this special offer period.
Full
details of the Reach PLC offer
Full
details of the National World offer
3 February 2025 (updated item)
Friends of DalesRail will
celebrate the 45th year anniversary of the formation
of the society on 5 July 2025 with a series of walks
and a celebration meal for members at Hellifield Station
Cafe. Further information and details of how to book
will be available in a future edition of the members'
newsletter. Walk details can be seen in the Train
Walks section.
27 January 2025
Please send any items
for inclusion in the next members' newsletter to the
editor, Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible, but
no later than 14 February 2025.
26 January 2025
The members' youth hostel
weekend will take place at Whitby
YHA, North Yorkshire from 5 to 7 September
2025. Further details and booking information will
be in the next members' newsletter.
29 December 2024 (updated item)
Our programme of guided
train walks for the public for the whole of 2025 can
now be seen in the Train Walks
section.
15 December 2024
The new rail timetable
starts today and is valid up to 17 May 2025.
26 November 2024
On Sunday 24 November,
the Annual General Meeting was held in Skipton with
45 attendees. Further details will be published in
the New Year members' newsletter.
8 November 2024
The Dales Railcard Winter
Offer is back from 4 November 2024 until 13 April
2025.
It offers holders of
Dales Railcards a 50% saving off the usual price of
Off-Peak Day Return tickets on the Leeds to Carlisle
via Settle, and Leeds Lancaster/Morecambe via
Bentham routes.
Full details of the offer
can be found on the Northern
Rail website.
3 November 2024
The online version of
our October 2024 members' newsletter can now be viewed
in the Newsletter
section.
27 October 2024
The 2025 programme of
Lake District walks can now be seen in the Members
section.
A further members' holiday
has been arranged for next year:
Plas y Brenin, Capel
Curig, North Wales - 17 to 20 October 2025 (3 nights)
Please see the Holidays
section for further information. Booking details will
be in future editions of the members' newsletter.
14 October 2024
A selection of photos
from the recent members' holiday in Bollington, Cheshire,
can be accessed via the Past
Events (Holidays 2024) section.
13 October 2024
The 2025 programme of
Thursday walks can now be seen in the Members
section.
6 October 2024
The October 2024 members'
newsletter has now been distributed to members by
post and email - the online edition will be available
here in due course. Please send any items for inclusion
in the next newsletter (New Year 2025) to the editor,
Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible.
27 July 2024 - Events
update 2025 (updated item)
Two members' holidays
have now been arranged for next year:
Ullswater, Patterdale
Hotel - 16 to 21 March 2025 (5 nights)
Dumfries, Holiday Inn
- 8 to 14 June 2025 (6 nights)
Please see the Holidays
section for further information. Booking details are
in the October 2024 members' newsletter.
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.
13 September 2023
For 2023-24, membership
of Friends of DalesRail is now increased to £12
per household per annum. For any members joining between
now and the end of November this year, the annual membership
will run until 30 November 2024.