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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.

 

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

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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