Commemorative artwork at EMR stations

Each year, East Midlands Railway remembers the fallen heroes with services of Remembrance at Nottingham and Derby railway stations on Armistice Day.

Supporting The Veteran’s Charity, EMR created special ‘Routes of Remembrance’ lanyards for employees and applied a vinyl to a Class 222 train operatring on the Midland Main Line.

This year, the operator worked with local artist Mel Langton and eight community groups across the East Midlands to create artwork installations for the occasion.

The project was jointly funded by EMR, Community Rail

Network, and six Community Rail Partnerships.

The interactive workshops enabled participants to use different types of art to represent Remembrance in their community. Each group created a unique item to display at their local station, alongside a plaque and QR code that can be scanned with a smartphone to provide more information.

The eight individual pieces then travelled across the East Midlands by rail, before being installed to create one large piece of art displayed at both Nottingham and Derby railway stations. All the artworks can be seen online at www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/ remembrance.