IT is with considerable sadness that I am standing down from my involvement with rail re-opening campaign group SELRAP (Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership), and I am writing to say a huge "thank you" for all the support I have had over the past three years.

SELRAP has made huge strides towards its goals, and this would not have been achieved without the tremendous coverage we have had in the local media.

I am leaving the group because I am to be the development officer of the new Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership based in Hexham, Northumberland.

I leave behind a really strong team. SELRAP, with its dynamic and pro-active approach to its campaign has broken the mould of railway campaigning, and has achieved much.

This was not my doing, but due to the combined efforts of the membership, and especially the remarkable people who form the working committee and who will now take the campaign forward.

STEVE BROADBENT, via email.