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Do you cycle to take a train? Get involved with this year’s Cycle-Rail Awards

Win a Garmin VIRB Elite camera
by Alex Bowden
Tue, Aug 23, 2016 11:25
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Intended to recognise progress made by the rail industry towards encouraging integrated cycle-rail travel, the 2016 Cycle-Rail Awards are now accepting nominations. The ten award categories include a photography competition with the winner set to receive a Garmin VIRB Elite camera.

The Cycle-Rail Awards have been running for 12 years with the aim of encouraging greater use of cycles to access the railway. This year they are sponsored by Cyclepods and supported by the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group.

The ten categories are as follows:

  • Best Customer Service
  • Partnership Working and Local Government Schemes
  • Innovation
  • Cycling Champion
  • Door to Door Journeys including Station Travel Plans
  • London Cycle Parking
  • Cycle Security
  • Station of the Year
  • Operator of the Year
  • Cycle-Rail Photography Competition

The Cycle Rail Awards website has page through which you can make nominations in each category.

The photography competition will reward “imagery that captures the essence of a cycle-rail journey and promotes it as a form of transport. Images can be factual, documentary, humorous or rely on the aesthetic beauty of the imagery or the narrative they portray.”

Entry closes on Friday September 9 at 5pm.

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balmybaldwin | 7 years ago
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I thought it rather inappropriate that these awards exist at all given how hard it is to travel with your bike. - Just try organising a Le Jog effort without car support at one end or the other - maximum of 2 bikes on any one train and you can't book the spots (if you can get on at all).

I would support these rail strikes if they were campaigning for bringing back the guards van!

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JonSP | 7 years ago
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Read the terms and conditions first. Like far too many competitions, they are basically using it to harvest a load of photos for free – one winner gets a prize, and a pretty modest one at that, the erst give away their photos for absolutely nothing.
"You give us free of charge the non-exclusive, sub-licensable right to edit, delete, copy, translate, create derivative works from, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, make available to the public or otherwise use and re-use material contributed by you (or not use it) on the website and in any accompanying literature."

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Rich_cb | 7 years ago
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Slightly ironic to illustrate this article with a picture of a GWR train after that company went out of their way to make life harder for cyclists this year.

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pl6125 replied to Rich_cb | 7 years ago
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Rich_cb wrote:

Slightly ironic to illustrate this article with a picture of a GWR train after that company went out of their way to make life harder for cyclists this year.

Not to be pedantic... but I think you'll find that's a South West train 1

My initial reaction to the article was WTF? But on reflection at least they're trying to promote the cause I guess.

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Rich_cb replied to pl6125 | 7 years ago
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pl6125 wrote:

Rich_cb wrote:

Slightly ironic to illustrate this article with a picture of a GWR train after that company went out of their way to make life harder for cyclists this year.

Not to be pedantic... but I think you'll find that's a South West train 1

My initial reaction to the article was WTF? But on reflection at least they're trying to promote the cause I guess.

They changed the pic!

Either that or I'm losing the plot.

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the_mikey replied to Rich_cb | 7 years ago
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Rich_cb wrote:

They changed the pic! Either that or I'm losing the plot.

 

Not losing the plot,  I came from Twitter where they used a Class43 HST set in First Great Western blue and pink livery. 

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