Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership - Officer's Blog (09/07/08)
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Hi there everyone and welcome to first Marston Vale Community Rail
Partnership Officer's Blog. 

Just to give you a quick update as to what's happening. It's a very 
busy time of year (when isn't it busy for a CRP here?). The summer
season is a particularly busy for all of us. At the moment we are
arranging our Special Trains for the Bedford River Festival (weekend
of Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th July). We have a late-night train
on the Saturday night called the Fireworks Flyer, leaving at 11:10pm
from Bedford calling at all stations. Please take the opportunity
to support that! Also, i would like to publicise our Special Sunday 
Trains, which are running throughout the day on Sunday between 10am
and 6pm.

We are very lucky at the moment because we have Sunday services
running on two Sunday's in a row! You can also travel on the
following Sunday (20th July) to the Ugly Bug Ball at the Forest of
Marston Vale. If you don't wish to use the train for that purpose 
and you have another journey in mind that's absolutely fine, please
do support our Special Sunday trains!

We are also busy working on our Ridgmont station project, which is the
building you see behind me, which we are looking to bring back into
community use. We are very pleased with the news that we have been
awarded £200,000 of funding for the refurbishment of that station. The
idea is that we will have a Community Rail Office there, with a range
of ancillary facilities, including a heritage centre, a cafe, an art
gallery, and some community offices.

So that's a quick snapshot of what's going on with the Community Rail
Partnership at the moment. If you have any queries or want any
information about any of the events, have a look on the other pages of
the website or get in touch. Thanks very much!

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