3 December 2018 FofHCS Christmas meal tonight at Miller & Carter in Heaton Chapel. All meals were pre-ordered, which resulted in excellent service and most enjoyable food.

Some new customers from the countryside visited our station yesterday……………….

A new station canopy is being installed to replace the previous rotten one. Thanks to one of our station supervisors for reporting this and thanks to Network Rail who are undertaking the work.

A great evening hosting some of the Friends of Heaton Chapel Station on the LNER driving simulators at Leeds. Hope you all had a great time and hopefully we will see you again soon!

The ‘Friends’ recently purchased our old station sign at an auction and it is now displayed in the station booking hall.

FofHCS win an ACoRP Gold Award nomination Certificate of Excellence at the Scot Rail Community Rail Awards 2018.

Many thanks to all the FofHCS volunteer gardeners who worked today on the platform 2 ramp and planters. Even though it rained intermittently, great progress was made and nobody became really too wet as it’s quite sheltered. Ferns have been purchased [thanks Paul] for this area which doesn’t get full sunlight.

Heatons Summer Festival today at Heatons Sports Club. Thanks to the FofHCS volunteers who manned our stand.

Rotary – FofHCS one day pop-up Open Garden at HTC, all created by FofHCS and Rotary volunteers.

Some of FofHCS’s heroic volunteers in action, in a blizzard, urgently planting recently funded replacement screening hawthorn whips before the end of March, which is the end of the planting season. Many thanks to Northern Rail for funding these replacement shrubs. Carillion had been tasked to fund and undertake this work, then unfortunately they went bankrupt in January.