Dan Wright was Community Railing

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 instagram.com/daniel_h_wrigh… and instagram.com/the_beauty_of_…

@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.

Can't believe that in a week our @DanRailing will be leaving the @CommunityRail family. Your enthusiasm for #CommunityRail & knowledge will be greatly missed! So... good to do one of our rolling meetings today at @Abbeylinecrp #BricketWood, #Poplar #Woolwich & then with giftage!

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.

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…

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!

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

@RailwayHeritage Thank you very much!

For those wanting to know more about Battle Station, can I point you to the @DanRailing Beauty of Transport blog from 2017 - Dan is on our Advisory Panel and is a great writer. thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/09/27/int…

@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?

@DanRailing @ScenicRailBrit No trains between those two stations. And it’s the opposite situation, it would be quicker to drive or even walk between those stations than get the train. It will be somewhere where a rail bridge links two stations where there is a long road diversion round, like Forth bridge

#TriviaThursday: A tricky one for you today… Which two stations in Scotland are only one minute apart by train but would take 20 minutes to drive between?

Thanks to support from @CommunityRail through their Community Rail Development Fund, we have fresh new promotional materials to use at our events. Banners, flags, brochures promoting tourism on the Swale Rail Line. PlusBus services, volunteering & more. kentcrp.org/new-promotiona…

This is great news. Thank you for your support!

Hello @ScenicRailBrit - a view for you.

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.

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! youtu.be/OPxjpZetXEQ?si…

@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.

@cvhdavidblues @railnigel @drdavidturner75 @GarethDennis @RHummBooks @Peter_Mugridge This intrigues me: there are no Pond artworks listed in a register done in the 1990s. It has however, been proven incomplete. Someone who lives and breathes this across the former NSE area is @DanRailing. Dan… your thoughts or literal observations could be useful

Son is extensively researching the lost and under-catalogued murals of Eddie Pond. He’s found some on a 456 on Flickr. Does anyone know where the 456 mural locations were please? @railnigel @MrTimDunn @drdavidturner75 @GarethDennis @RHummBooks @Peter_Mugridge Big thank you!

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

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

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

@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: rhacc.ac.uk/mosaic-william…).

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.

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.)