{"id":21709,"date":"2024-03-22T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21709"},"modified":"2024-03-22T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:37:23","slug":"volunteers-create-wildlife-garden-at-brighouse-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21709","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers create wildlife garden at Brighouse station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern <\/a>customers can now enjoy a new wildlife garden at Brighouse station, after a small team of dedicated volunteers spent almost two years creating it. <\/p>\n

The old goods yard and railway siding have been transformed by a 15-person team from the Friends of Brighouse Station, who helped clear the overgrown trees and litter before weeding the area and constructing raised beds filled with drought-resistant plants and a woodchipped path, using recycled timber from an old fence at Platform 1.<\/p>\n

They also planted a triangular bed of ornamental red and blue grasses, an array of flowers and 15 square meters of wildflower turf to encourage insects, bees and birds to populate the area.<\/p>\n

The volunteers, who spent more than 600 hours working on the project after it got underway in July 2022, unveiled the finished product during a ceremony earlier this month at the train station, which is operated by Northern.<\/p>\n

Known as the Climate Change Garden, it was designed to be low maintenance and require very little watering.<\/p>\n

For their work on the garden and two other projects, which enhanced the station with a stunning floral display and some impressive community artwork from Calderdale College students, the group of volunteers were presented with a Gold Award at the Community Rail Awards 2024 in Swansea earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Paul Marshall, Chair of the Friends of Brighouse Station, said: \u201cVolunteers have worked through the summer sun, winter frost, and rainy periods to complete this worthy project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to our volunteers, Northern, and local businesses for their support.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe more I look at it, the prouder I am. We don\u2019t do it to win prizes, we do it because we like it and want to make the station look nice for the people who use it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt cheers people up and makes them smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerry Peters, Regional Director for Northern in Yorkshire, Humberside and the East Midlands, said: \u201cWe\u2019re hugely grateful to Friends of Brighouse Station who have transformed an area filled with overgrown trees and bushes into a fantastic wildlife garden for our customers to enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope some of our customers, who use this station to make more than 320,000 journeys a year, will get time to take a stroll through the garden and appreciate all of the volunteers\u2019 hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWe work closely with hundreds of adoption groups across our network to keep our stations tidy for customers and enhance their appearance.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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