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05.04.2023 - 09:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Northern has teamed up with Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) – a not-for-profit organisation that provides a link between operators and the travelling public – to launch a project called Try the Train.
Train travel can be the perfect, stress-free way to get to work, college, social events and more, but not everyone finds navigating the network easy. Planning and taking a rail journey – from purchasing a ticket to identifying the right platform and boarding and disembarking from a train – can be stressful, especially for people with disabilities, both visible and hidden.
But Northern is working hard to change that.
As part of a pilot scheme, which will run throughout this year, different groups whose members have anxieties about train travel can attend workshops and be accompanied on rail journeys.
“Try the Train is for people who have low confidence in rail travel, for many possible reasons,” says Katie Douglas, accessibility and inclusion officer for CRL.
“Some people might have anxiety around sensory overload, which stops them travelling. The Try the Train scheme includes workshops for people in this situation.
“Since the launch in January we’ve been working with diverse groups, including students from special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) colleges; a group of predominantly South Asian women, and a group of refugees, all of whom were previously nervous about taking train trips."
Before embarking on a trip, participants in the programme attend a workshop where they are taken on a virtual tour of a station and a journey, via Northern’s Accessible Travel Simulation app.
“Because our SEND students’ anxiety around train travel was so high, their first trip was simply to go and look around their local station,
Let's start with the basics. How do you pronounce the name of the new luxury chocolate shop and cafe on Cross Street?
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