Railfuture north east will be setting up a stall to help promote Railfuture and rail user group activities at the Community
Rail Festival at Darlington on the 23-24 September 2006.

Railfuture publications and various leaflets produced by rail user groups in the region will be on offer. They would also welcome the chance to distribute any leaflets produced by other Railfuture branches or rail user groups.

Offers to help staff the stall would also welcome. If you could cover for say an hour, please contact Gordon Barclay by e-mail at firstnorthumbria at tinyworld.co.uk or telephone 016070 505958 (evenings after 19.00).

The Community Rail Festival is now an annual event. In addition to the exhibits and displays to be held at the Bank Top
station in Darlington, two excellent railway museums are located in the area, the North Road museum in Darlington and the National Railways Museum's Locomotion museum at Shildon.

Both these sites are served by Northern Rail services on the Bishop Auckland branch. For those wanting an escape from
things railway, Darlington is a very attractive market town in its own right.

Hertfordshire Rail Tours will be running a charter train to Darlington from London on the Saturday for the event. In addition they will also be running two trains from Darlington the scenic Boulby Branch, normally only served by goods trains.
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Details of the ACoRP event from their web site www.communityrailfest.org.uk/