We are pleased to announce that the new date for the recently postponed Teddy Bears Picnic on the Glossop Line involving the friends groups at Glossop, Hadfield, Hattersley and Guide Bridge stations will be on SATURDAY 4th AUGUST between 10 and 1.30pm. This time to be confirmed. There will be a Hunt the Teddy competition at each station and a variety of entertainment at Hattersley. We are just finalising the details and posters will display these soon on our website and at the stations. Free train travel for teddies and their families between participating stations courtesy of Northern will again be available. We look forward to welcoming you!

On Saturday June 2nd Neil visited Lowestoft as a guest of the Lowestoft Evacuation Committee for their special commemorative event at the Stella Marris Hall. Chris Brooks its long standing and much appreciated secretary had organised the event which brings together the surviving evacuees who left Lowestoft by train on 2nd June 1940 for homes in towns such as Glossop. Such is the continuing interest in this story that we now have a special page on our website about the evacuation and a new information display board at Glossop station in the waiting room created by Paul Marsh. Neil took a replica of this board to Lowestoft and presented it to the Chairman Brain Baxter and the former evacuees. He made them smile when he said that the board had done the same rail journey as themselves but in reverse as he had brought it with him on several trains from Glossop to Lowestoft! The occasion was a blend of music, photos, nostalgia and a buffet. Neil was made to feel very welcome and he would like to express his thanks for very kind hospitality.
Thanks to the efforts of Chris and Martin Halliday of East Suffolk CRP arrangements have now been made to display the Information Board inside the Booking Hall at Lowestoft Station - our thanks to Greater Anglia for their help with this. Having the same display board at both stations will be a poignant link between the people of the two towns The Glossop evacuees are making their annual trip to Glossop on August 13th, 14th and 15th. We look forward to welcoming them back!