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
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28 May 2023 - Newsletter
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
weekend in Swaledale and the October holiday in Montgomery,
Wales, plus initial details for walking holidays in 2024/25.
Please send any articles for the next newsletter (Autumn
2023) to the editor, Fiona Robertson, as soon as possible.
8 May 2023
Unlimited rail travel
with Northern Rail during May, June and July for £10
per person for a day or £17.50 for a weekend
Northern Rail has teamed
up with National World and Reach PLC 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 other 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.
There are two slightly different
deals available, depending on which local newspaper you
collect the offer from.
NATIONAL WORLD OFFER
To qualify you have to collect
THREE tokens from qualifying National World newspapers,
who publish a number of titles including the Yorkshire
Evening Post and several titles in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Please see the Northern
Rail website for details of when the tokens will
be in the newspapers.
You need to download the
form on the Northern Rail website and you can then 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
8 May to Friday 14 July 2023 and is valid every day during
this special offer period.
Full
details of the National World offer including
the list of qualifying newspapers to obtain tokens (external
web link).
REACH PLC OFFER
To qualify you have to collect
TWO tokens from qualifying National World newspapers,
who publish a number of titles across northern England.
Please see the Northern
Rail website for details of when the tokens will
be in the newspapers.
Otherwise, the offer is identical
to the National World offer above.
Full
details of the Reach PLC offer including the list
of qualifying newspapers to obtain tokens (external web
link).
29 March 2023 - Lakes
Walks Update
The destination for two of
this year's members' Lakes Walks have been swapped around.
Tuesday 16 May will now be a moderate/strenuous walk from
Martindale and Tuesday 3 October will now be a strenuous
Howgills walk.
6 February 2023
The members' Youth Hostel
weekend has now been booked at Grinton
Lodge YHA in Swaledale for 8 to 10 September 2023
(2 nights). Booking details and further information will
be included in a future edition of the members' newsletter.
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.
15 January 2023
Details of our public train
walks programme for the remainder of this year from July
to December 2023 can now be seen in the Train
Walks section.
20 December 2022
Details of our 2023 programme
of members' Lake District walks can now be seen in the
Members section.
14 November 2022 - Holidays
2023 Update
The members' autumn weekend
will take place at the Dragon
Hotel, Montgomery in mid-Wales for 3 nights from
Friday 13 to Monday 16 October 2023. Further information
and booking details will be included in a future edition
of the members' newsletter.
6 November 2022
Details of our public walks
programme from January to June 2023 can now be seen in
the Train Walks section.
24 July 2022
