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21
April 2025
Train walk update for
Saturday 26 April - Kirkby Stephen moderate walk
Additional information
from the leader (Jon W):
As we will be starting
the walk at 11.05, we will not be planning a coffee
stop, so please have coffee on the train.
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
28 April to Thursday 17 July 2025 and is valid every
day during this special offer period. Some time restrictions
apply - the offer is only valid on trains timed to depart
after 08.45 Mondays to Fridays. It is valid at any time
weekends and Bank Holidays.
26 March 2025
Please send any items for
inclusion in the next newsletter (May 2025) to the editor,
Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible, but no later than
16 May 2025.
7 March 2025 (amended item)
The February 2025 newsletter
has now been sent out to members via post and email
- the online edition can now be seen in the Newsletter
section.
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
can be found in the February 2025 edition of the members'
newsletter.
Walk details can be seen in the Train
Walks section.
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.
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.
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.
