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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

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.

 

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.


25 September 2024

The Friends of DalesRail Annual General Meeting will be held at the Swadford Centre, Skipton on Sunday 24 November 2024. Full details and lunch booking information will be in the October members' newsletter.


16 September 2024 - 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 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 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.

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 Yorkshire and Lancashire. 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 9 September to Friday 9 November 2024 and is valid every day during this special offer period.

Full details of the Reach PLC offer

Full details of the National World offer


25 August 2024 - Train Walks Advance Notification

On Saturday 26 October, both our walks have been changed due to planned engineering works on the railway. Please see the Train Walks section for full details.


27 July 2024 -
Events update 2025

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 will be in future editions of the members' newsletter.


21 July 2024

NEWSLETTER

Please send any items for inclusion in the next newsletter (October 2024) to the editor, Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible, but no later than 27 September 2024.


1 July 2024

The online versions of our February and May 2024 members' neswletters 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.


25 May 2024
- Newletter

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 weeekend at Hartington Hall, Derbyshire and the October holiday at Bollington, Cheshire. Please send any items for inclusion in the next members' newsletter (Autumn 2024) to the editor, Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible.

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.

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.

 

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