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Railway Walks
The Trainline - train timetable and advance purchase of tickets.
Link to Severnside Community Rail Partnership.
Link to Severnside Community Rail Partnership.
More Railway Walks - Devon & Cornwall
Self-guided walks from stations on the Great Scenic Railways of Devon & Cornwall, picturesque branch lines in the far South West of England. Click here for information.
Walks all start and end at rural railway stations served by regular, year round train services. All offer either circular or linear walks that may lead you along idyllic country lanes or interesting urban trails. So leave your car behind and explore these scenic routes at your leisure.
Self-guided walks from stations on the Great Scenic Railways of Devon & Cornwall, picturesque branch lines in the far South West of England. Click here for information.
Walks all start and end at rural railway stations served by regular, year round train services. All offer either circular or linear walks that may lead you along idyllic country lanes or interesting urban trails. So leave your car behind and explore these scenic routes at your leisure.
WESSEX WANDERER RAIL WALKS
Plans are already well underway for the 2010 programme of walks which start from stations along the Bristol to Weymouth line, following another successful year in 2009.
Financial assistance from the four Ramblers’ Areas involved (Avon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire), the Heart of Wessex Rail Partnership and the Association of Rail Partnerships plus a generous donation from an Avon Area member enabled the programme to go ahead after the previous source of funding was drastically reduced. Happily funding is available to cover the 2010 programme.
First Great Western continued to support us by supplying leaders and back-makers with passes to cover pre-walking and leading. Sue Blake, Dorset Area, continued as Walks Co-ordinator, and indeed took on the extra work of overseeing the printing of the programmes,formulated by Rob Dawson of Wilshire Area, and subsequent distribution.
As an experiment the 2009 programme of thirty-four walks commenced earlier (23 May) and finished later (10 October) omitting some high summer Wednesdays and Saturdays when the trains tend to be very busy. The 2010 programme will be based on the same principle, commencing on 15 May and finishing on 9 October and should feature thirty-five walks, the highest number to date. Full details of the walks will appear in future editions of Area News, Avon Area website, Ramblers’ Walksfinder and selected ones will appear in some Group programmes. In addition if anyone would like a copy of the full 2010 programme, due to be published in April, you can obtain one by sending a stamped addressed envelope to : The Walks Co-Ordinator, 19 Shaston Crescent, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2EB
Five hundred and sixty-one walkers joined us during the season, 71% of whom used the train, and given the unpredictable weather an average of seventeen per walk was good. I won the ‘gold star’ for leading the wettest, windiest exposed walk of the season and also had the other ‘honour’ of attracting the highest number of people on the second walk I led – thirty-six.
The Leaders still manage to find different routes even though a programme of walks based on the twenty stations along the line has been in operation now for some fifteen years or so. This is even more of a challenge when devising new linear walks and when having to take into account the train timetable and the possibility of trains not running to time – so thanks and well done to all involved.
Wishing you all a good 2010. Do join us on a rail walk and enjoy a great sociable day out.
Sylvia Popham
Vice President – Avon Area
Financial assistance from the four Ramblers’ Areas involved (Avon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire), the Heart of Wessex Rail Partnership and the Association of Rail Partnerships plus a generous donation from an Avon Area member enabled the programme to go ahead after the previous source of funding was drastically reduced. Happily funding is available to cover the 2010 programme.
First Great Western continued to support us by supplying leaders and back-makers with passes to cover pre-walking and leading. Sue Blake, Dorset Area, continued as Walks Co-ordinator, and indeed took on the extra work of overseeing the printing of the programmes,formulated by Rob Dawson of Wilshire Area, and subsequent distribution.
As an experiment the 2009 programme of thirty-four walks commenced earlier (23 May) and finished later (10 October) omitting some high summer Wednesdays and Saturdays when the trains tend to be very busy. The 2010 programme will be based on the same principle, commencing on 15 May and finishing on 9 October and should feature thirty-five walks, the highest number to date. Full details of the walks will appear in future editions of Area News, Avon Area website, Ramblers’ Walksfinder and selected ones will appear in some Group programmes. In addition if anyone would like a copy of the full 2010 programme, due to be published in April, you can obtain one by sending a stamped addressed envelope to : The Walks Co-Ordinator, 19 Shaston Crescent, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 2EB
Five hundred and sixty-one walkers joined us during the season, 71% of whom used the train, and given the unpredictable weather an average of seventeen per walk was good. I won the ‘gold star’ for leading the wettest, windiest exposed walk of the season and also had the other ‘honour’ of attracting the highest number of people on the second walk I led – thirty-six.
The Leaders still manage to find different routes even though a programme of walks based on the twenty stations along the line has been in operation now for some fifteen years or so. This is even more of a challenge when devising new linear walks and when having to take into account the train timetable and the possibility of trains not running to time – so thanks and well done to all involved.
Wishing you all a good 2010. Do join us on a rail walk and enjoy a great sociable day out.
Sylvia Popham
Vice President – Avon Area
Photos - Wessex Wanderer Rail Walks Winter Get Together - Bruton 9 Jan 10