Have you seen the new exhibition of art by children at Goostrey Primary School in the platform shelter at Goostrey station?

With the title ‘Air and Sea’, it features Spitfires from World War 2 flying over shimmering blue water.

The planes were drawn by year 5 pupils and the sea pictures by children in year 6. The display was created last June specifically for Goostrey’s D Day +80 commemoration.

But deputy headteacher Becky Cowell thought it was so lovely that it was right to place the pictures where a wider audience could appreciate them. FoGS are delighted that local children are helping to ensure that Goostrey station is a place that our community can be proud of.

Recently FoGS members Debbie Goldsmith, Louise Willis and Vicky Worsley welcomed a group of Rainbows and their leaders as they arrived by train from Holmes Chapel.

Once inside Goostrey Art Studio, the children enjoyed a lively session making hedgehogs, either from clay or from card and natural materials collected from the station gardens.

Afterwards the young people inspected the bug hotels on the grassy area near the car park.

With obvious concern, one child wanted to know who checked the bugs in for the night!

As they left for home, each Rainbow received a copy of Arlo’s Adventures, a book designed to teach them about safety on the railway.

All of the children who come to Goostrey station love seeing and hearing the trains.

But the excited screams of Holmes Chapel Rainbows in response to a driver sounding the engine’s horn will be hard to forget!