A SCHOOL art project has brought a splash of colour to Burnley railway station.

Year six pupils at St Peters CofE Primary School with Community Rail Lancashire, a group which helps improves stations, to revive Burnley Central.

The several works of art were jointly funded by the Designated Community Rail Development Fund and Community Rail Lancashire.

Gill Coyne, teacher, said: “We did a project on the history of the railway station.

“The children absolutely loved the five day event and they learn about the many languages that are spoken in the borough.

“This is the best project we have ever done and the artwork looks fantastic.”

The aim of the project was to improve the station environment for commuters and to get people of Burnley to feel included in the process of the railway.

The pupils from the Church Street school were invited to represent the passengers of the future.

Artist Alastair Nicholson led the children through the creation of abstract artwork, where they used colours and shapes that reflected the words they had chosen.

The school felt the artwork reflected the rich diversity and heritage of the area, through use of different languages spoken at home.

The children chose the languages they wanted to use, including English, Urdu, Punjabi, Chinese, Hungarian and Spanish.

The colours and shapes they have used in the work, reflect the words chosen.

The pupils undertook sensory train journeys with Northern to generate vocabulary to express how they felt about their local transport networks and to record what they would learn about safety and train use.