Just playing trains?

Paul Salveson

27 November 2015

When they aren’t dressing up, Geoff (Santa) and Sue Mitchell (pixie) are heavily involved in Mytholmroyd Station Partnership, which will be holding its annual carol singing event at the station on the evening of December 7th. On Monday December 1st there’s carol singing and the added attraction of mulled wine at Northwich station (on the Mid-Cheshire Line) between 10.30 and 12.30

Britain’s heritage rail sector is a mature and highly successful example of ‘social enterprise’ in practice. At a time when Government is showing increasing interest in social enterprise models for delivering all sorts of services, the experience of Britain’s heritage railways might have something to offer their bigger sisters. ‘Social enterprise’ can be a fairly elusive concept and mean many different things. Social Enterprise UK is the national network that...

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson is a board member of Passenger Focus and a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield. Paul’s book Railpolitik – bringing railways back to communities, was published in 2013, also by Lawrence and Wishart. The views expressed here are his own.

http://www.paulsalveson.org.uk

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