The Joint Clitheroe Line & East Lancashire Community Rail Partnerships held their latest quarterly meeting on Thursday 22 October 2026 as an online meeting.
Artists Impression of proposed work at Clitheroe station.
The well attended meeting was Chaired by Mike Cliffe (Lancashire Combined County Authority). The minutes from the previous meeting held in July 2026 were approved with no matters arising.
The current Activity & Education Plans were reviewed by Richard Watts & Dave Savage from Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) with particular mention of thanks to the volunteers of Ribble Valley Rail and the Lancashire Rail Ramblers for their continuing support in making the Yorkshire Dales Explorer the success that it has become. Dave reminded everyone that if they knew of any schools that wanted to engage with CRL’s Education Team then they could use the new online booking form on the https://trained.website/.
Richard also asked for any projects that might be included in the 2027 Activity Plan and also noted that there will another Station Adopters Meeting in May 2027 during the annual Community Rail Week.
The full Activity Plan Update can be downloaded on this link: Activity Plan update 22 10 2026
The next report was an update on Northern’s activities including performance and community rail by Owain Roberts and Martin Keating and their presentation can be seen on this link: East Lancs and Clitheroe Lines CRP October 2026
Next up was a Lancashire Combined County Authority (LCCA) update by Mike Cliffe including details of the latest Transport Plan and changes to the National Bus Fare Capping which will see changes in 2027. The report can be seen here: EL&CL CRP LCCA update 22.10.26
Reports were also received from Ribble Valley Rail, the |British Transport Police and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). TfGM’s report can be downloaded here: Update from TfGM October
The date for the next quarterly meeting was agreed and this will be on 14 January 2027. The Annual General Meeting will be held in April 2027.