FRECCLES

Something's going on at station and it's all good. Literally all will be revealed on Friday 2nd October at 2pm.

Do come and join us.

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A mural will be unveiled at Eccles Station at 2pm on Friday October 2nd. The mural was jointly commissioned by Rocket: All Aboard and FRECCLES as part of FRECCLES Wellbeing project. You are very welcome to attend.

Hello All

Just a reminder that the next FRECCLES Station Garden and Activity Day will take place this Sunday 6th September at 11am at Eccles Station. Everybody is welcome to attend.

Hello FRECCLES Supporters.

This week, I thought I would update you on Rocket: All Aboard.
This is a programme of events planned to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Liverpool to Manchester railway - the world's first intercity passenger railway. The main celebration will take place in 2030, the actual anniversary of the inauguration of the railway but it is intended to hold a series of events/activities in the build-up to the main event with particular focus in 2029 on the anniversary of the Rainhill Trials at which the locomotives to work the forthcoming railway were chosen.
The project will be a collaboration between, cities, towns, and public and private bodies and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, You can find more information about Rocket: All Aboard on the Manchester Histories website.

Hello FRECCLES Supporters

Here is an update on the progress of the Liverpool-Manchester Community Rail Partnership which may be of interest.

The Liverpool to Manchester Community Rail Partnership has now been approved and has become a member of the Community Rail Network (CRN). The latest Community Rail Network map now includes our CRP! The CRP covers both our line over Chat Moss
and the Cheshire Lines route via Irlam and Warrington. It will liaise with Friends groups along the two lines. Over the next few months, the partnership will be seeking full accreditation which will give access to further funding.
Currently, the CRP is managed by Manchester Histories from where Paul Greenwood has been seconded as Community Development Officer for the project. The Chair of the Stakeholders Group is Roy Chapman and our own Chair, Steve Hopkins, is Vice-Chair.
Funding has been made available from Northern and CRN to develop branding for the Partnership and to look into ideas for the future such as a Community Garden at Newtonle-Willows station.
In the long-term, the CRP will seek to build links with communities along the line, develop travel initiatives, improve stations and support heritage and other projects along the lines. Finally, it will play a key role in Rocket: All Aboard which will celebrate the
200th anniversary of the inauguration of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway). More information on the CRP can be found on the Manchester Histories website.

Hello FRECCLES Supporters

Just to let you know that the next FRECCLES Station Garden and Activity Day will take place this Sunday August 2nd at 11am at the station. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Even if you can't get down to the platform gardens, how about this display on the station forecourt......

Our next monthly station Friends meeting for litter picking, gardening and general making the station look nice is this coming Sunday, 5th July.

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Hello to all our members and Supporters.

Can we begin by offering our sympathy and condolencies to the train driver who died in the crash at Bedford last week. Our thoughts are with his family and all those affected by this tragic accident.

Can I then draw your attention to the fact that the next FRECCLES Station Garden and Activity Day will take place on Sunday July 5th at 11.am. As usual, everybody is welcome to attend to join in, meet the team or just to view the gardens