Annual Adoptors Award Ceremony - 5th September 2008
Brandon Station is best: it’s official Only two and a half years since it was ‘adopted’ by local volunteers, Brandon has won a top award from train operators National Express East Anglia.
At the annual Adopters’ Awards ceremony at Norwich on Friday 5 September, Brandon Station beat off competition from stations on the picturesque Bittern and East Suffolk lines to win Best Station in the ‘medium’ category.
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Brandon Station - Best Medium Station 2008 Award |
The success is due in great part to the spectacular flower displays created by secretary Ken Drane, particularly the station name picked out in flowers. But in giving the award the judges also look at the involvement of the station in community life. FOBS (Friends of Brandon Station) have been working hard to make the station known, with such events as ‘See the steam train’, car boot sales, and a planned film show.
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Ken Drane receiving the award from Andrew
Goodrum, Business Manager for Mainline & Rural Services,
National Express East Anglia, on 5 September
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Brandon Station - Best Medium Station 2008 Award |
The station also featured in the recent Dad’s Army celebrations, with star Bill Pertwee and a Routemaster bus load of fans visited the site of the episode The Big Parade which was filmed there.
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Some of the Floral Displays at Brandon Station |
From being a drab and unattractive place only a few years ago, Brandon station is becoming once more something the town and the area (it is actually in Weeting parish) can be proud of. The long term aim is to obtain funding to restore and reopen the building for community and other uses, and a feasibility study by Keystone Development Trust is shortly to be completed.
8 September 2008
Stephen Dean 01842 815372
stephendean@decanimusic.co.uk