Dan Wright was Community Railing

Archived account of work for @CommunityRail in SE England. Personal take, views not necessarily those of employer.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

This account is no longer actively managed as I've left my job at @CommunityRail but I'm leaving it up for inspiration about the brilliant work in the sector.
You can find me at other places inc @danielhwright @beautyoftranspt https://t.co/Rb9pTbCjmH and https://t.co/owOm6vIGw5

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@watfordgap @CommunityRail @Abbeylinecrp I will miss it all so very much. It has been quite the experience and draws to a close much as it started: with a whirlwind tour of #CommunityRail doings and the realisation that this is a job without beginnings or endings; just endless opportunities for community connections.

[Paul Clifton @PaulClifton_]

This week I have been interviewing @bessbbe, trainee train driver for @GBRailfreight and author & illustrator of this excellent book. She tells me there are more than 100,000 copies around the railway: an extraordinary achievement.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

About a squillion partners were involved in commissioning the artwork. I’ll try to remember them all: @NetworkRailWssx @SoutheastCRP @SW_Help @GWRHelp @CrossCountryUK @CommunityRail @TheArtsSociety_ Guildford and Guildford Arts. I think that’s everyone…

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

For today’s #CommunityRail adventure I am at Guildford station. Do you remember this artwork? Well, I have further news…

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

So this is what I’ve come to see - a brand new piece of public art for Guildford, “Host” by artist Julie Hoyle. It’s a huge mural, in two 5m-long sections, full of details about local history and features.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

It has won a design award from the Guildford Society, and today the award was unveiled. It’s great to see a #CommunityRail project being recognised and appreciated by its local community!

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@RailwayHeritage Thank you very much!

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@Iskra1234 @ScenicRailBrit Of course! Silly of me - for some reason I had it my head that trains call at both, but of course they don't - you can see one from the other. I think the stations either side of the Forth Bridge are a good call - but is it really that quick between them?

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

This is great news. Thank you for your support!

[RailwayHeritageTrust @RailwayHeritage]

We’re delighted to award a grant to @HampshireCRP for their restoration of #WoolstonStationSignalBox to a value of £27,900. Derelict since the 1990s, so let’s hope it looks like this again sometime soon (pic 3). @SW_Help @CommunityRail

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

Hello @ScenicRailBrit - a view for you.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

Congratulations @DCRailPart! I was really pleased to see all three shortlisted entries for this award feature @communityrail members - so well done also to @fobs_seaford for your shortlisting for Bishopstone and @DarentValleyCRP for your shortlisting for Eynsford.

[Railway Heritage Awd @NRHAwd]

The @AvantiWestCoast sponsored 2023 Community @NRHAwd goes to @networkrail, @GWRHelp, @DCRailPart & DRA for the work carried out at the newly-reopened Okehampton station.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

Love this short film by @SW_Help showing off some of the many station adopters on their network and underscoring the importance of adopters' work to stations and local communities. Most of them are members of @communityrail - I spotted some familiar faces! https://t.co/SKP8z8SS7x

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@MrTimDunn @cvhdavidblues Thanks @MrTimDunn and hello @cvhdavidblues. I do love a Pond and am happy to add whatever small amount I can. I try to keep this a/c for my day job so I'm going to shift this over to one of my alternates, @beautyoftranspt and carry on the reply from there... Bear with.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@LordScroley @singleglove ‘Twas the night before Glovewatch
And all round the twitten
No hand-covering stirred
Not even a mitten.

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

Just changed trains at Gatwick Airport so took the chance to visit @SoutheastCRP’s new station history display. A tour-de-force by CRP line group member and local historian Bruce Healey, it is easily the biggest and surely one of the best I’ve seen. #CommunityRail

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@LordScroley @singleglove Oh, I am SO ready. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

@CommunityRail And later we saw these beautifully restored William Blake-inspired mosaics recently installed at @SW_Help’s Surbiton station, which our members Friends of Surbiton Station partnered with several others to deliver (more details here: https://t.co/ZtcMRlftdz).

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

Busy out on the patch today catching up with @CommunityRail members. Being work shadowed by my colleague Patrick today; here we are Tolworth checking in with @communitybrain’s Himali (we missed you @LordScroley! But Himali held the fort admirably as you’d expect.)

[Dan Wright was Community Railing @DanRailing]

We earlier admired the work of Elmstead Woods Gardening Project and their recently completed Station history room which is all kinds of fab (@communityrail was delighted to support works to make good the floor). Here are leads Sally and Ed with their latest station sculpture.