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Friday 30 Sep 2005

MEDIA INVITATION: CELEBRATING THE REGENERATION OF BELPER STATION

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Date: 6 October 2005 Time: 10.30 am Location: Belper station, Albert Street, Derbyshire DE56 1DA Event: Launching the newly regenerated Belper station Media contact: Hazel Moss, 0121 345 3098 Journalists and photographers are invited to join representatives from Network Rail, Central Trains and Derwent Valley Rural Transport Partnership in celebrating the regeneration of Belper train station. In the last two years over £180,000 has been spent on the dramatic improvements to the station, including new shelters, CCTV and enhanced customer information. The celebration also marks the completion of a major re-landscaping project by environmental regeneration charity Groundwork Erewash Valley. Groundwork’s Intermediate Labour Market Team has worked on the project, helping to restore the railway gardens. The team is a group of long-term unemployed people from Amber Valley and Erewash who are recruited as trainees for 13 weeks by Groundwork. Working on the project has provided them with training and vital skills needed to find work, as well as the opportunity to help improve their local environment. Dyan Crowther, Network Rail’s Route Director for London North East said: “The regeneration work at Belper station is a great example of brilliant results that can be achieved when communities work together. Not only has the station been transformed but through Groundwork Erewash Valley it has provided unemployed people with new skills”.