This page will be used to show some of the projects that the Community Rail Team get involved in and will include text about the project, photographs and other images and links to any external content. 

MY MILL HILL

An innovative project has started which is hoped will bring some colour and ownership to one of the areas more neglected stations. Mill Hill station on the outskirts of Blackburn has long been a magnet for antisocial behaviour, graffiti and vandalism. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council has worked with Northern Rail and the East Lancashire Line Community Rail Partnership to fund CCTV cameras at the station to make the station a safer environment for passengers. A project has been put together to try and bring the station back into the community through engagement with local schools, youth clubs and community groups. A local senior citizen group will also be engaged which gives the project a rounded balanced community involvement.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL STORY & GALLERY

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NORTHERN RAIL COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS

Northern Rail have recently appointed four Community Rail Ambassadors to help promote rail travel to local communities where travelling by train is not the normal method of getting about.

The scheme promoted by Serco (one of Northern Rail’s parent companies) and trialled around London’s Dockland Light Railway is partly sponsored by the Department for Transport, Greater Manchester PTE and the Clitheroe Line & East Lancashire Community Rail Partnerships.

Working in the community the Ambassadors will hold ‘surgeries’ to give information about rail travel and ticketing and will also be taking small groups of non-railway users out on accessibility trips to familiarise them with using trains, booking tickets and to show how easy and quick it is to get to interesting destinations.

The four communities targeted in this first scheme are, Blackburn (Audley), Brierfield, Farnworth & Rochdale. Northern Rail have produced individual leaflets for each of the Ambassadors and these can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate link below.

Blackburn – Sultana Jamil

Farnworth – Simon Abbott

       Rochdale – Zainib Ahmed      

 

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GREAT WALL OF DAISYFIELD

A community art scheme developed in Daisyfield Primary School by Brian Haworth and Alastair (the Artist) Nicholson and supported by Head Teacher, Peter Fenton; the Great Wall of Daisyfiled is a 10 metre vinyl wall covering depicting the railway journey from Blackburn to Clitheroe in the style of Hundertwasser, an Austrian artist. The project was part funded by the Designated Line Community Rail Development Fund.

• The story
• Gallery
• Certificate 

  

Meet Me at the Station

An art project funded by a Ribble Valley Arts & Recreational Grant and the Lancashire County Council Aggregates Levy. The project was supported by Ribble Valley Rail and the Clitheroe Line and East Lancashire CRPs.

• Summary – a description of the project
• Animation – the DVD as uploaded to You Tube with children’s poetry as a sound track
• Certificate - a copy of the 3rd Place certificate from the 2010 National Community Rail Awards
• Gallery 1 – the project
• Gallery 2 – the photographic exhibition that accompanied the project