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
