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High Cup Nick, walks in the northern dales starting at Appleby Station.

Ana Cross on the North York Moors, subject of coach walks catering for all grades of walkers.

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This page gives the latest news that may affect any of our activities - such as additional events, website updates, changes to our published programme, or problems with the trains we are using.

News items are retained on this page for up to 6 months, but may be removed/updated earlier than this, depending on their relevance. All older and removed items can still be viewed in the News Archives (see link below)

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If you need to contact us with enquiries, particularly about our events, please use our new email address
enquiries@friendsofdalesrail.org
This is monitored by the Events Secretary (Diane) and the Website Editor (Philip) who will reply as soon as possible

 

28 May 2023 - Newsletter

Our May newsletter has now been produced and sent out to members by post and email. This includes booking forms for the September youth hostel weekend in Swaledale and the October holiday in Montgomery, Wales, plus initial details for walking holidays in 2024/25. Please send any articles for the next newsletter (Autumn 2023) to the editor, Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible.

 

8 May 2023

Unlimited rail travel with Northern Rail during May, June and July 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 8 May to Friday 14 July 2023 and is valid every day during this special offer period.

Full details of the National World offer including the list of qualifying newspapers to obtain tokens (external web link).

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 Reach PLC offer including the list of qualifying newspapers to obtain tokens (external web link).

 

29 March 2023 - Lakes Walks Update

The destination for two of this year's members' Lakes Walks have been swapped around. Tuesday 16 May will now be a moderate/strenuous walk from Martindale and Tuesday 3 October will now be a strenuous Howgills walk.

6 February 2023

The members' Youth Hostel weekend has now been booked at Grinton Lodge YHA in Swaledale for 8 to 10 September 2023 (2 nights). Booking details and further information will be included in a future edition of the members' newsletter.

17 January 2023 (updated item)

Anyone interested in joining us can now become a member online, by filling in our New membership application form. New membership subscriptions, as well as renewals, can now also be paid online. Please see our Join page for full details.

15 January 2023

Details of our public train walks programme for the remainder of this year from July to December 2023 can now be seen in the Train Walks section.

20 December 2022

Details of our 2023 programme of members' Lake District walks can now be seen in the Members section.

14 November 2022 - Holidays 2023 Update

The members' autumn weekend will take place at the Dragon Hotel, Montgomery in mid-Wales for 3 nights from Friday 13 to Monday 16 October 2023. Further information and booking details will be included in a future edition of the members' newsletter.

6 November 2022

Details of our public walks programme from January to June 2023 can now be seen in the Train Walks section.

24 July 2022

The information in the Train Walks section now includes the scheduled train arrival time within the booking details for individual walks. Each walk officially begins upon the actual arrival of the train at the designated station, where you should alight.

20 July 2022

The society's bank details have now changed. For any members wishing to make payments to us via bank transfer, please now use the account details on the Join Friends of DalesRail page.

 

 

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