Bury Trail & Rail 2026

Join The Sunnywood Project for this exciting annual family adventure that starts from Bolton Street East Lancashire Railway Station.

Venturing along the beautiful, well-established country trail paths, you will walk for a distance that suits you, ending your walk at one of the three ELR stations situated along the route. Once you’ve reached your chosen station, you will board the train with your free ticket for a return trip back to the starting point at Bolton Street Station, Bury.

Your options:

• Bolton Street Station to Burrs Country Park Station (1.5 miles)

• Bolton Street Station to Summerseat Station (3.3 miles)

• Bolton Street Station to Ramsbottom (5 miles)

  
  

There is no requirement to commit to a distance before booking, as your ticket will enable you to board a return train from any of the three stations along the route; our friendly Walk Leaders will be on hand to guide and support you no matter what distance you choose.

The route starts from Bolton Street Station, Bury making its way to the first stop at the Burrs Country Park. From here, the route passes over waterways and through ancient woodland up to Summerseat where the second station is located. The final section of the route continues with a little hill climb and passes through Nuttall Park from which the final station is not far from.

This is a free event but donations are welcome to help support, develop and sustain the current and future Sunnywood Project Youth Programmes and Community Activities.

Times:

Registration is between 9:00-9.45am on the 30th August

Guided Hike: setting off promptly at 10:00am

For information on train times please visit this link: https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/plan-your-day-out/timetables/

Please note:

• No dogs are permitted on this event

• Only the first section of the route between Bolton Street station and Burrs Country Park is pram accessible.

• If walking with a pram, we advise you to board the train at the Burrs Country Park station as the second section of the route is not pram accessible.

• All children and young people (aged 0-18 years) must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

For anymore information on this event please email info@thesunnywoodproject.co.uk

Trail and Rail is a collaborative project and has been made possible working in partnership the East Lancashire Railway and Bury Council.

With thanks to Bury Council, this is a free event however, donations will be greatly appreciated.

The Sunnywood Project is an award winning nonprofit organisation offering a wide range of youth programmes and community activities which all aim to utilise the outdoors to enrich people’s lives.

Proceeds from many of our events help us continue this important work.

By donating towards this event, you will contribute to covering the costs of our ‘Kindling Kids’ sessions; our Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programmes; our SPACE programme for children with SEMH needs; and much more!

Thank you so much for joining us.

Tickets will be available from 1st July 2026