Families are being encouraged to use the train during ‘Community Rail Week’.

Community Rail Lancashire is encouraging the many families and individuals who rarely or never get on a train or bus, and instead rely on cars, to consider using trains.

Organised by Community Rail Network and sponsored by Rail Delivery Group, the week runs from May 23 until 29, and will involve hundreds of community rail partnerships and volunteer groups inviting people to make the occasional switch to greener, healthier, more social forms of travel.

To mark the week, Community Rail Lancashire will premiere a video honouring the life and work of the Honourable Rachel Beatrice Kay-Shuttleworth MBE (1886-1967), who was the last Shuttleworth family member to live at Gawthorpe Hall.

Taking place at Padiham Primary school on Monday, the video has been created with the help of year six pupils as well as artist Cath Ford and Huckleberry Films.

On Wednesday (May 25) it’s over to the Fylde coast, where a number of events will take place.

The week-long celebration will end in the East of the county on Friday, with a guided bike ride from, and back to, Brierfield station, which will also take in the Stephen Burke Cycle Track.

Chief executive of Community Rail Network, Jools Townsend said: “Community Rail Week, and its call to action of 'give the train a try', is all about connecting local communities with their railways and encouraging and enabling more people to travel sustainably by train.”