It is with great pleasure that Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) can announce that additional funding has been secured for two projects on the Clitheroe and East Lancashire railway lines from the Community Rail Development Fund (CRDF).
The Clitheroe Line: A Picturesque Railway Journey – CRDF grant £6,002
This tourism and community project involves the charity, Arts to Heal based in Blackburn capturing their group’s photographs and stories of the places they visit stopping off at all the stations between Clitheroe and Bolton. It will develop the group’s confidence in rail travel and their interest to explore local places and encourage visitors to travel by train to do so too. The photographs taken will showcase the diverse range of places to visit along the line with on-line and in-person displays able to visit events and conferences to promote the line.
East Lancashire Line: For the Church & Oswaldtwistle to Accrington & Beyond by Train, Foot & Bicycle – a CRDF grant of £3000 and from Lancashire County Council’s Active Travel fund £2692.
This project is run with the Church and Oswaldtwistle Rotary Club’s Rotakids groups at St Andrew’s CE Primary and the additional funding to the Windfall Fund already secured will support the expansion of the project to another local school and the artwork planned. It will showcase the Hyndburn Greenway and the access to it from Church and Owaldstwislte and Accrington stations; encouraging families to visit by train and raise the profile of the access to the greenway and other local parks and green sites by foot and bicycle too.
Caroline Holden, a Community Rail Development Officer with Community Rail Lancashire said; “I am absolutely delighted to have our projects given the green light from our funders. We know the value the project will have for those involved in so many ways, also the passengers and those who will find out about the great places to visit and things to do in Lancashire – a place certainly to visit.”
These projects have been part funded by grants from the Community Rail Network and the Department for Transport’s Community Rail Development Fund.
