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AVRUG campaigns for rail users along the Aire Valley routes on issues such as:

• Adequate seats
• Quality information at all times
• Station improvements
• Car parking provision
• Increased trains at each end of the day
• Better weekend services
• Improved services for Gargrave and beyond.

The Airedale line links Leeds and Bradford to Shipley and stations to Skipton. It is among the busiest rail routes outside the south-east, carrying, along with the assocated lines linking Leeds with Bradford Forster Square and Leeds and Bradford to Ilkley, over eleven million passengers a year. Our trains are almost exclusively formed of modern air-conditioned electric-powered Class 333 four-car units.

SUMMER SPECIAL!! The steam-hauled Scarborough Spa Express is operating throughout the summer, York-Harrogate-Leeds-York-Scarborough - click on Rail News (above left) for more information.

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SPECIAL EVENT - An "Open Day" to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the opening of the railway at Skipton is being held at Skipton station on Friday 7 September.

On Sunday 9 September, AVRUG committee member Peter Bewes will be giving a slide show "30 Years of the Changing Railway at Skipton" at 1930 at the Swadford Centre, Swadford Street, Skipton. Admission three pounds.


		Aire Valley Rail Users' Group

Working to improve rail services in the Aire Valley

	AVRUG campaigns for rail users along the Aire Valley routes on issues such as: • Adequate seats • Quality information at all times • Station improvements • Car parking provision • Increased trains at each end of the day • Better weekend services • Improved services for Gargrave and beyond. The Airedale line links Leeds and Bradford to Shipley and stations to Skipton. It is among the busiest rail routes outside the south-east, carrying, along with the assocated lines linking Leeds with Bradford Forster Square and Leeds and Bradford to Ilkley, over eleven million passengers a year. Our trains are almost exclusively formed of modern air-conditioned electric-powered Class 333 four-car units. SUMMER SPECIAL!! The steam-hauled Scarborough Spa Express is operating throughout the summer, York-Harrogate-Leeds-York-Scarborough - click on Rail News (above left) for more information. ******************************************* SPECIAL EVENT - An "Open Day" to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the opening of the railway at Skipton is being held at Skipton station on Friday 7 September. On Sunday 9 September, AVRUG committee member Peter Bewes will be giving a slide show "30 Years of the Changing Railway at Skipton" at 1930 at the Swadford Centre, Swadford Street, Skipton. Admission three pounds.