London Midland have been celebrating a successful year in community rail and the achievements of the rail operators ‘Adopt a Station’ scheme are being celebrated.

12 new community rail posters were launched. This featured:

• Coseley
• Hednesford
• Northfield
• Nuneaton
• Olton
• Ridgmont
• Stechford
• Stone
• Stratford-upon-Avon
• Widney Manor
• Smethwick

The posters are being showcased at Birmingham Snow Hill station. The aim of this is to encourage more people to join their Adopt a Station Scheme.

A conference was held about what a successful year London Midland have had for their Adopt a Station Scheme. 30 stations have been adopted with nearly 200 new adopters.

London Midland supports community rail partnerships on the Abbey Line and Marston Vale Line. The Marston Vale line has seen the adopters numbers double in last year. In addition, London Midland is now also jointly funding North Staffordshire CRP. This has enabled new objectives like extensions to Penkridge.

What did the officials say?

Faye Lambert, head of community rail at London Midland, commented: “The new posters at Snow Hill are a great way of telling the story of what has been achieved thanks to the hard work and dedication of station adopters, community partners and our CRPs over the past 12 months. It is thanks to them that so many communities and customers can now enjoy the special added value that community involvement brings to stations, something of which they should all be incredibly proud.”

Richard Brooks, commercial director at London Midland, added: “We hope that people passing through Snow Hill will be inspired by the fantastic work undertaken by local adopters. Hopefully it will encourage them to be part of their local railway. It’s been rewarding to look back at the past year of station adoptions and we trust the next will be equally, if not more, successful.”

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