AN eight-camera CCTV system has been installed at Bentham Railway Station - and is being held up as a good example of partnership working.
The cameras - part a passenger support programme - cost £2,000 and were funded by grants from organisations involved in the Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe Community Rail Partnership (CRP).
And, to keep costs down, volunteers from Friends of Bentham Station (FOBS) and Lancaster and Skipton Rail User Group helped with the installation, which took 14 hours and was carried out over two afternoons and two evenings.
Support was also given by Bentham Town Council, Northern Rail, British Transport Police, Network Rail, Association of Community Rail Partnerships and the Department for Transport.
Gerald Townson, CRP chairman, said: “This is a good example of community rail partnership action at its best. We have a good system provided economically. It will be used to provide a best practice paper for the benefit of other community rail groups.”
The cameras provide added security for passengers and help to discourage anti-social behaviour, vandalism and petty theft.
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