Thunder Train Fun Weekend
27th, 28th September 2008
Bure Valley Railway and Radio Broadland – “Kids Charity” are heading a joint awareness and a fund raising initiative. A “Radio Broadland Thunder Train Fun Weekend” will take place on the 27th/28th September 2008. It will celebrate the re launch of the Thunder locomotive. Children will travel free on the Bure Valley Railway, (a maximum of two children per adult return fare).
The Thunder train will launch the weekend with the Thunder girls at the Wroxham station before its departure to Aylsham. The first fifty children on the Saturday and Sunday morning Thunder Train will receive complimentary bottles of bubbles
Face painting, magic shows, a station trail are all part of the activities at Aylsham A chance to look at the engines in the workshop or for fathers or grandfathers to take part in the popular “Driver’s Experience” with a short introductory course and mothers and grandmothers! The return nine mile journey from Aylsham to Wroxham will give parents a chance to relax as the children complete their fun sheet, part of the station trail. This will provide the opportunity to win a free trip on a family Bure Valley Railway Santa Special. At Wroxham the activities continue with the Radio Broadland Mega Slide, a bouncing castle, a circus workshop, a bubble blowing machine and much more.
A guest appearance on Sunday morning will catch Rob Chandler waving the first departure of Thunder at Wroxham and greeting the visitors at Aylsham. Photo opportunities on both days will be available with the main attraction “The Bure Valley Railway “Thunder” locomotive (and Rob Chandler and the Thunder girls).
Bure Valley Railway Marketing Officer Annette Bowler said “it is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the Bure Valley Heritage railway and raise money for local children’s charities. It is a great day out for all the family. The railway is an attraction that is not weather dependant to have a great time. It is an opportunity to educate and encourage the interest with the children to pass on the passion and skills to future generations.”
Radio Broadland Kids Charity Manager Ann Tattam said “It is an unusual coincidence or fate, a locomotive named Thunder on a railway in Broadland. The railway is an all weather attraction; Bure Valley Railway has generously offered to donate £1 of every adult fare to the Radio Broadland Kids charity. Discover what is on your doorstep Do different – Do Norfolk at the Radio Broadland Thunder Train Fun Weekend 27th/28th September 2008 at Bure Valley Railway.”
Visit www.bvrw.co.uk for more details.
