Try the Train

Try the Train is a project funded by Northern Rail and delivered by Community Rail Lancashire.

The objective of the programme is to enable participants to become confident, independent rail users. This is achieved through a series of 3 workshops and 2 rain experiences with each journey being less facilitated by the Try the Train trainer.

Through the programme, we want to help reduce anxiety so each journey made by a participant will have been planned beforehand at one of the workshops. Through this process they will learn how to find the information they need to plan their journey such as train times, cost, how to purchase a ticket, what to expect on the train, connections, rail safety etc prior to undertaking it. By the second workshop participants should be able to do this by themselves with the trainer there as support if they have any questions or come across something new.