Network Rail is joining forces with Young Scot, Scottish Youth Theatre and North Lanarkshire Council’s Active Schools Programme to take its rail safety message to children and teens around the Central Belt. Launched today on the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow, the innovative new partnership is the biggest youth awareness-raising campaign ever mounted by the rail industry in Scotland. It will target children and teenagers aged between three and 26 in nine local authority areas through quite a number initiatives aimed toward informing them of the risks of misusing the railway. The scheme is being funded by the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme, that’s delivering a number of enhancements across Central Scotland’s rail network including the electrification of the most important Edinburgh-Glasgow Queen Street line and the road between Glasgow and Cumbernauld....
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