Train Update

22nd July 2022Neil Simpson
We were invited by Northern Rail to take a ride on the new Northumberland Line. Some children were able to see their houses, we also passed the school. It was very exciting. Northern Rail handed out goody bags to all the children, with a special book included.
We had a ride on three trains in one day. It was a very busy day. We learned a lot about how to travel by train. We waited for the train at Newcastle Central station. It was very busy and we saw loads of different trains. The children are becoming very good train travelers.
The weatherproofing for the train was completed this term. Noel Forte and Barry Lewis from Henkel kindly helped to demonstrate how to apply the Weatherproofing products. We would like to thank Henkel for donating £50,000 of products to help waterproof the train. Noel and Barry have gone above and beyond to help the Dales train project, we could not thank them enough.
Noel is running the great North run in memory of his Son Luke for the charity YoungMinds. Please see the link to his just giving page
We had a visit from Neil from the Aln valley Railway. Neil helped to take out the train controls for the new driving simulator installation. Thanks for all the help Neil.
Thank you to all the help from Northern Rail, Network Rail, Henkel, Northumberland CC, The police Cadets, British volt and Morgan Sindall AECOM,Neil from the Aln Valley railway and TEXO

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24th June 2022Neil Simpson

We have had a very busy successful July with a lot of work taking place.

Thank you to Morgan Sindall, NCC and the Cadets for helping clean the train and also for the work in the school garden. Thank you to Morgan sindall ground control for cutting back the large trees in the garden. The garden is looking amazing and the children were amazed to see how beautiful you had made it.

The Cadets worked very hard moving all the train seats from the garden as well as cleaning and mopping the train.

Thank you to everyone involved, particularly Reemer for organising the groups of volunteers, we are extremely grateful.

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20th May 2022Neil Simpson

Two Classes went on a special visit to Aln Valley Railway. We looked at the steam engines and had a ride on their Pacer train. We looked at a viaduct built by Robert Stephenson and also sat on a Harry Potter style coach. Aln Valley have also been helping us with our Pacer train and helped by taking out the seats.

Thank you to Lesley Park for taking out the toilet on the train. This space will be converted into storage.

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19th May 2022Neil Simpson

We had a very exciting month last April . It was our official opening for the Train station.

The children took part in the ceremony to sing a personalised song written by Sam from citizen song writers.
The station was donated and constructed by a local company called Texo. It was officially opened by the dep mayor and Alan Conway from Texo.  Thanks to all the guests who joined us to celebrate, including representatives from Morgan Sindall, Henkel and Northern rail and the Port of Blyth.

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8th March 2022Neil Simpson
Neil from Alan Valley kindly gave up his Saturday with help from Mr Groundwater to take the seats out of the train. Thank you to Aln Valley for their commitment and work towards the Dales Train Project. We are looking forward to a trip to see Neil’s Pacer train,(Pictured below) as he has recently qualified to be a pacer train driver.
We had some BIG news from Northern Rail. We were successful in their Seedcorn Fun ding. Also a big thank you to the people who have donated on JustGiving me page.

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Train Update 16/02/2022

16th February 2022Lee Wilkinson

We had some special guests in school. Noel Forte and his team from Henkel came to demonstrate how to apply the weatherproofing product to the train. Henkel have kindly donated £50,000 of Weatherproofing products for the train project. This means there will be no water damage to the train. Thank you to John McCafferty, Mark Patterson, Barry Lewis.

Train Update & Justgiving

7th February 2022Lee Wilkinson

We had some great news this week, RW Mann Trust have kindly donated to the train project. Thank you so much, this will go towards developing out STEM carriage.

Also a big thank you to Mr Holmes who kindly made a donation to help. On this note we have created a ‘Just Giving’ campaign to help raise £10,000 to aid in the carriage development. If you would like to donate please go to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/thedales-school.

Thank you to Ian Levy and the chronicle for appealing to the public to help the train project  https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dales-school-blyth-pacer-train-22947145

We had a trip to Kirkmerrington School in County Durham. They showed us around their Class 142 Pacer train. We wish you all the best for your project. We are looking forward to Lesley visiting Blythdale to see our Train.

More exciting news to come next week.

Train Update

28th January 2022Neil Simpson
The painters from Bagnells have been busy painting the outside of the Train this week. They are working very hard in the cold weather. Thank you.
On Friday Ian Levy MP visited school to have a look inside the train and support the school with ideas of how to help raise funds for our STEM carriage. I think  Ian enjoyed having a go at driving the train.

Welcome to the Train Blog

28th January 2022realsmart admin

You may know that The Dales School acquired a train which we are currently refurbishing to be used a a learning space. This blog will provide updates as we go through the project.