A lot of the work of SMART falls upon a small number of committee members, all of whom have other, competing, commitments. It would make a huge difference if a few more people could get involved, sharing the tasks amongst a larger group of people.
You can contact us, either by e-mail: info@smart-rail.co.uk
or by attending one of our meetings, normally held in the Commercial in Slaithwaite. Our next meeting is on Wednesday 15th February at 7.15 p.m.
The next meeting of SMART will be on Wednesday 15th February 2012, at 7.15pm in the Commercial, Slaithwaite.
Anyone who has used Slaithwaite station in the past year or so cannot failed to have noticed the modern art on the platform in the form of yellow-edged patches covering various places where the original platform surface has rotted away.
On some parts of the station there is more patch than platform.
This could not go on for ever, and it hasn’t. So, on the Manchester-bound platform, about one third of the platform length has been resurfaced, with a tactile strip along it. 
As yet, that’s all that has been done. The rest of platform 2, and all of platform 1, remains a thing of shreds and patches.
Replacement of the platform should have been used as an opportunity to lengthen the platforms to take four-carriage trains, but this didn’t happen.
