8 December 2024
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 dinner 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.
26 November 2024 - Apologies
On Saturday 23 November, due to adverse
weather conditions, neither of the trains we had been
planning to walk from actually reached their respective
destinations at Settle and Skipton. The Settle Circular
moderate/strenuous walk did not take place at all
and a severely curtailed Barnoldswick Circular easy
walk went ahead with the leader and just one participant.
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.
12 November 2024
Our 2025 programme of guided train walks
for the public (January to October) can now be seen
in the Train Walks
section. The walks for the remaining two months of
next year will be posted online in the New Year.
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 (amended item)
The venue for the Friends of DalesRail
Annual General Meeting on Sunday 24 November has now
been changed to St Andrew's Church Hall, Newmarket
Street, Skipton, BD23 2JE. Details of any changes
to the lunch bookings will be posted here.
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.
1
July 2024
The online versions of
our February and May 2024 members' newsletters can
now be viewed in the Newsletter
section.
2
June 2024
The new rail timetable
starts today and is valid up to 14 December 2024.
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
