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Jonathan Hinder MP tSnreosdop7cm1hlut2hhu082tf2723fm2t55itl076u9c0uf570ai7042ti · New Column: End the Dead End – Reopen the...
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£10M feasibility study into extending Borders railway to finally begin
New Civil Engineer, 27th February 2025 As Borders Railway gets funding for a extension Study, SELRAP should gets the same....
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Funds in place for Borders Railway extension study
BBC News, 25th February 2025 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05mlp43gnqo As Borders Railway gets funding for study, SELRAP hoping to...
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Unveiling of Plaque
Jonathan Hinder MP, Family and Friends of Derek Jennings
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Time to End the Dead End: The Case for the Colne-Skipton Rail Link
Burnley Express, 29th April 2025 Those railway buffers at Colne station should not be there. Our line shouldn't be a cul-de-sac. I...
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TRIBUTE & UNVEILING OF PLAQUE IN MEMORY OF DEREK JENNINGS
Dedication and Unveiling of Plaque by Pendle & Clitheroe MP, Jonathan Hinder Colne Railway Station on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 12 noon...
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Call to invest billions in Rail in North
Will this include the SELRAP Scheme which would link the 3 Regions of Lancashire, North and West Yorkshire across the North?
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SELRAP meet with Skipton MP to update on rail campaign
Craven Herald & Pioneer, 10th April Colne to Skipton Trackbed SKIPTON MP Sir Julian Smith has committed to working with the group and...
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Skipton-Colne rail campaigners meet with Sir Julian Smith MP
Telegraph & Argus and Craven Herald, 10th April CAMPAIGNERS fighting to reinstate the Skipton to Colne railway say it could open in the...
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SELRAP Skipton to Colne railway campaigners make economic case to MPs and councillors
Burnley Express, 3rd April 2025 SELRAP campaigners believe that the Skipton to Colne project has an excellent financial business case...
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Report on SELRAP AGM
Lancashire Live, 3rd April 2025 Colne-Skipton rail campaign told tourism and leisure travel 'higher than ever' Updates on regional and...
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SELRAP Reps meet with Skipton MP
Meeting with Julian Smith MP -Skipton and Ripon - Friday 28th March Peter Bryson, Chris Oakley and Phil Spencer on behalf of SELRAP...
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Pendle MP speaks about poor rail services in East Lancashire
The Pendle MP also spoke in the House Commons on this issue as well as supporting the SELRAP Scheme https://www.burnleyexpress.net/commun...
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Two Memorial Events Remembering Derek Jennings
Saturday Sat 26 th April 2025, starting at noon Unveiling of: 1. Memorial Plaque (Colne station) 2. Commemorative Bench (Brierfield...
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Two Memorial Events Remembering Derek Jennings
Saturday Sat 26th April 2025, starting at noon Unveiling of: 1. Memorial Plaque (Colne station) 2. Commemorative Bench...
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Importance of Mayors and Transport Connectivity to boost Economic Growth
Angela Rayner emphasised the central and pivotal role of Mayors in the devolution process to Combined Authorities and Local Authorities...
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Data reveals hundreds of East Lancs rail services cancelled
Lancashire Telegraph, 6th March 2025 What a lousy service, as Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner has emphasised the importance of...
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Merging Lancashire areas will 'unlock' more cash for services
Lancashire Live, 3rd March 2025 Government minister Jim McMahon explains the council scrappage plan There is less money available for...
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Lancashire set to get an elected mayor in the next 18 months
Lancashire Live 1st March 2025 Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner appears to have confirmed the plans after almost a decade of political...
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Convention of the North heads to Lancashire for major talks on transport and economy
Lancashire Live News, 26th February SELRAP will be there A key political and business conference takes place in Lancashire this week,...
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Campaigners push to reopen Colne to Skipton railway for faster Lancashire-Yorkshire links
Lancashire Live, 24th February Brierfield station (Image: Robbie MacDonald LDRS) A campaign group wanting government and rail industry...
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SELRAP set for Visit by Network Rail Director to AGM
Lancashire Telegraph, 21st Februa 2025 A campaign group is again calling for government and rail industry support to reopen a railway...
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Go ahead for Bristol to Portishead railway line project
Good News from ITV News, 11th February 2025 The first passengers could be using the line again by 2027, the West of England Mayor...
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Keir Starmer hears 'anger' over East Lancs trains and NHS
Here is an Article from the Lancashire Telegraph from Bill Jacobs of 6th February: https://www. lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24916669.p...
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BBC supports SELRAP
This backdrop was displayed in an interview with the Chancellor of the importance of Transport in the Government's Strategy for Economic...
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Northern announce new trains for the Colne branch line
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/northern-rail-to-add-450-trains-to-network/
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Keighley MP to meet Transport Secretary for rail route talks
Keighley News 17th January 2025 KEIGHLEY MP Robbie Moore is stepping up his support of a campaign to reopen a railway line. He's to meet...
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Derek Jennings Heritage Plaque
Here is the Plaque to be erected at Colne Railway Station as a Memorial to Derek Jennings and a Tribute to his life long support of the...
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MP to meet Transport Secretary for Skipton-Colne rail link talks
Local MP Robbie Moore is to meet the Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, to push for the reopening of the Skipton to Colne railway line...
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New hope for campaigners in battle to reopen railway line
Keighley News 2nd January 2025 https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/24829292.new-hope-campaigners-battle-reopen-railway-line/ ?
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Reopening the Colne-Skipton Railway to Reconnect the North
Yorkshire Bylines, 28th December 2024 Colin Speakman's case for reopening the Colne to Skipton Railway to reconnect the North...
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Yorkshire Rail Campaigner
Number 67: Winter 2024-5 Obituary: Derek Jennings by Jane Wood, Media Officer, SELRAP, October 2024 Members of the Skipton East...
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Tribute to Derek Jennings in Railfuture’s Railwatch Magazine
Issue 182, December 2024 RailFuture Yorkshire and North West branches are sad to report the death from cancer at the age of 89 of Derek...
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Colin Speakman's Speech to Members
Colin Speakman Colin's Presentation to SELRAP Members at the Meeting in Skipton on Monday 9th January The moment of opportunity for the...
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"Renationalisation of the Railways"
https://leftfootforward.org/2024/12/revealed-the-first-rail-services-to-be-brought-back-into-public-ownership/
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Mayor of York & North Yorkshire meets with SELRAP Representatives
The Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith, said: “We had a really insightful meeting with SELRAP, Drax, and Skipton Building...
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TfN supports rail across the North
Please see Article in the Lancashire Business Review on 19th November 2024 at: https://www.lancashirebusinessview.co.uk/latest-news-and-f...
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Tributes to Derek Jennings
SELRAP’s Founding Chairman, Steve Broadbent, paid this Tribute to Derek Jennings during the funeral ceremony at the Cornerstone Church...
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Scandal of 900 empty Pendle homes
See this Report in BBC Article of 10th November 2024 at: https://www.bbc./news/articles/cr5mq94v4plo What a disgrace to have nearly 900...
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Montage of Derek Jennings
Life long Campaigner and Carer of Railways
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