Try the Train

We did another Try the Train programme in June 2025, this time working with the Hinge Centre in Bridlington.

Try the Train is a programme developed by Community Rail Lancashire that empowers people to be able to use the railway independently and helps to break down any barriers that they might face.

We did a series of workshops and rail confidence trips which the participants chose and planned themselves. They chose to go to Hull for their first trip and to Meadowhall for their second.

All the participants enjoyed the experience and got a lot out of it. They grew in confidence week by week and said how much they had learned and how much happier they now feel about train travel.

Many thanks to Northern and Community Rail Lancashire for supporting this project, to The Hinge Centre for working with us, and to The London Way cafe on Hull station for looking after us all so well when we had lunch there.