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Community rail and social inclusion
26/03/2018ACoRP SearchResearchItemsThe Association of Community Rail Partnerships reports here on how, in the words of chief executive Jools Townend, community rail volunteering is “about far more than flower beds and fences: it brings people together, enhancing health, wellbeing and cohesion.” Different ways in which community rail helps social inclusion, it reports, include volunteering, accessible journeys, connecting people to opportunities and services, and engaging communities in art and heritage. ACoRP says there are now 60 community rail partnerships (a figure that is growing), and hundreds of station friends/adoption groups.
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Community rail and social inclusion
16/03/2018ACoRP SearchResearchItemsThe Association of Community Rail Partnerships reports here on how, in the words of chief executive Jools Townend, community rail volunteering is “about far more than flower beds and fences: it brings people together, enhancing health, wellbeing and cohesion.” Different ways in which community rail helps social inclusion, it reports, include volunteering, accessible journeys, connecting people to opportunities and services, and engaging communities in art and heritage. ACoRP says there are now 60 community rail partnerships (a figure that is growing), and hundreds of station friends/adoption groups. Investigation into the Department for Transport’s decision to cancel three rail electrification projects National Audit Office March 2018 The National Audit Office says it “is too early to tell the extent to which the Department [for Transport] will be able to deliver the benefits of electrification” without completing three projects cancelled last year. Electrification from Kettering to Nottingham/Sheffield, Cardiff to Swansea, and the Windermere branch were all dropped following cost overruns and Network Rail’s constrained ability to borrow since reclassification as a public body.
