FOSBR Awards Ceremony
Date: May 2010The FOSBR 2010 Awards celebrated those in the community who helped to improve local rail services.
Awards were given to:
- Station Improvements: Severnside Community Rail Partnership, which has introduced flower planters and help points at all stations, repainted railings (with the help of community service offenders), and painted Clifton Down’s station name on the bridge. The group has also improved shelters, signs, lighting, seats and handrails and has introduced artwork.
- Service Delivery: First Great Western & First Great Western Train Drivers and Crew.
- Rail Infrastructure Improvements: Network Rail for relaying the track from Montpelier Tunnel to Avonmouth Dock Junction, renewing Narroways Hill Junction, introducing a turn-back facility at Clifton Down, making the signalling cable more secure and introducing a new train-to-shore communication system mast at Montpelier.
- Funding: Bristol City Council
And for inspiration, celebrating an explosion of creativity inspired by the Severn Beach Line:
- Matt Redmond for designing the FOSBEER booklet
- Bill Guilding for the Stapleton Road mural
- Fairfield High School for pop art murals at Redland station
- Henbury School for mosaics at Sea Mills station
- Avonmouth CE Primary School for murals at Avonmouth station
- Jenny Davis for “Looking for Obama”, a play featuring Sea Mills station
- David Johnson & Diana Taylor for "The Severn Beach Line" film
Coverage:
- Network Rail press release
- Bristol Green Party article (including photos)
- Bristol Evening Post article
- Mentioned on BBC Radio Bristol.