Northern Rail’s 156464 was named Lancashire DalesRail in a ceremony at Clitheroe Interchange on Friday April 30th 2010. The naming to celebrate 35 years of the DalesRail service was attended by about 60 people including invited guests from the rail industry and from the Lancashire Rail Ramblers. After short speeches from Richard Watts (LCC) and Matt Beeton (Northern Rail’s Area Director) Howard Hammersley (Rail Ramblers) spoke about the history of the DalesRail service and how it came into existence. Howard and Matt then pulled the cord and declared the unit duly named Lancashire DalesRail.    

DalesRail is a partnership between LCC, Northern  Rail, the Clitheroe Line Community Rail Partnership and the Rail Ramblers and continues to be a great success carrying over 4100 passengers in 2009. A great number of the passengers travel on the service to take part in the guided walks led by volunteers from the Rail Ramblers organisation.