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Citizens' Rail
A group where partners from the EU Citizens' Rail project (www.citizensrail.org) can keep in touch following the end of the project in autumn 2015.
- Mike Parker-Bray (owner)
- 2,057 total views
- 13 total members
- Last updated August 9, 2015

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Andrew Mc Partlin joined the group Citizens' Rail
- November 9, 2015
Richard Burningham joined the group Citizens' Rail
- November 6, 2015
Kai Mohnen joined the group Citizens' Rail
- November 5, 2015
Nick Davies joined the group Citizens' Rail
- November 5, 2015
Richard Weston joined the group Citizens' Rail
- November 4, 2015
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Mike Parker-Bray: How about a Christmas train in Aachen to go with the festive markets?

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Join the community rail sector's very own online network. Share what you're doing, get advice and make new contacts with rail professionals, volunteers and others. Title says it all, really ;-)
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- October 20, 2015
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Martin Yallop joined the group Citizens' Rail
- October 13, 2015
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith joined the group Citizens' Rail
- October 7, 2015
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Rebecca Catterall joined the group Citizens' Rail
- October 6, 2015
Adam Luscombe joined the group Citizens' Rail
- October 2, 2015
Simon Clarke joined the group Citizens' Rail
- August 13, 2015
Marco Trienes joined the group Citizens' Rail
- August 11, 2015
Celia Minoughan joined the group Citizens' Rail
- August 10, 2015

Members

This group has 13 members.

Mike Parker-Bray (owner) We're trying a new approach to explaining what happens when the train stops at Coombe Junction on the Looe Valley Line. Hornby plus the Hokey Cokey! Watch the video below (filmed in our office!). It will be part of our upcoming heritage project about the line.
Celia Minoughan
Richard Burningham What have people being doing in terms of Christmas events? Please post pics of Santa Trains, carol signing at stations and anything else.
Marco Trienes Hi Mike, very nice and intuitive. To be honest, what I don´t like is the text style of "Community Rail Cafe". Maybe you can implement the great station drawing? What do you think about some more forum topics, e.g. "Evaluation & Survey". Kind regards Marco
Simon Clarke The latest edition of Reading Between The Lines, CRL's newsletter has just been published - read it here: https://www.communityraillancashire.co.uk/news/reading-between-the-lines-28/
Nick Davies
Rebecca Catterall The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership is holding its annual conference on community rail in Plymouth next Wednesday 7th September. We still have a few spaces left and were wondering if any members of the cafe would like to attend? Details of the conference can be found by following the link, and if you would like to attend please email me at rebecca.catterall@plymouth.ac.uk. http://www.dcrp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DCRP-conf-agenda-sept-2016.pdf
Kai Mohnen Hello all, just leaving the office now and packing my things for our trip to Devon! Looking forward to seeing a lot of you at the conference in Torquay...!
Adam Luscombe
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