Category Archives: Slaithwaite

SMART meeting with Jason McCartney MP

SMART met with Jason McCartney MP on 21st September. Issues discussed included future service patterns, refranchising, cross-boundary fares, bus replacement during engineering works, and the impact of the ale trail.

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30 years of Slaithwaite station – Saturday 15th December

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Sunday train services

Unless there’s been a change of plan at short notice without the need to tell anyone – not that anything like that has or could ever happen round here – Sunday trains return from 9th December 2012.

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Slaithwaite Station 30th anniversary – request for memorabilia

  STRAINS of Happy Birthday To You could echo across the platform at Slaithwaite Station next month. The original station was shut down in 1968 as the country’s rail network was slashed under the Beeching Axe, but, after public pressure, … Continue reading

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