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Community Rail Partnership Looks to the Future with New Railway Poster Guides Community rail partnership looks to the future with new railway poster guides October 19, 2020 Norfolk and Suffolk’s rail branch lines are looking to the future with the production of new poster guides to encourage visitors to the area to travel by rail. Community Rail Norfolk has produced two take-home guides – one for the Norwich – Sheringham Bittern Line and one for the Norwich – Great Yarmouth / Lowestoft Wherry Lines – to inform visitors to the area about what they can discover along each line. The posters – which are a smaller, portable version of the successful tourist maps on display at stations – have been produced following requests from the public for their own souvenir poster. The updated take-home format also features information on Greater Anglia’s brand-new fleet of trains now in operation along the routes. Peter Mayne, Chair of Community Rail Norfolk, parent organisation of the Bittern Line and Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnerships said: “We were overwhelmed by the positive response to our railway guide maps which enable us to share some of the fantastic locations and attractions to be found along our routes, and enable us to undertake important cross promotion around the network. “We are therefore delighted to have produced these new format guides which both help people to explore and take home their own souvenir poster.” Greater Anglia’s Community Engagement Manager Alan Neville said: “The station poster guides are extremely attractive and have proved very useful in the promotion of our rural routes, a format that is now being adopted by other Community Rail Partnerships nationwide. “It is great that these are now available as both a handy guide and a souvenir poster for people to take home.” The new guides are now available to collect from Great Yarmouth, Norwich and Lowestoft railway stations and can also be downloaded from the Bittern Line and Wherry Lines websites. Copies are also available by post by sending an A5 stamped addressed envelope to: Community Rail Hub, Lowestoft Railway Station, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 2EG. Greater Anglia continues to ensure that rail travel is safe for staff and passengers with an enhanced cleaning regime, on stations and trains, concentrating on high-touch areas such as push buttons, grab rails and door handles. The train operator has also introduced a wide range of measures to make it easier for customers to maintain social distancing at stations and on trains – including floor markings, one-way systems, new signs and queuing systems. It is now mandatory for customers to wear a face covering when using public transport, to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Children under the age of 11 and people with a disability or illness which means they cannot wear a face covering are exempt from wearing them. Photo credit: Greater Anglia For today’s rail news from railbusinessdaily.com click here..
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