EMR collaborates with community groups to create artwork for Remembrance Day

Every year, East Midlands Railway (EMR) marks Armistice Day with services of Remembrance at Nottingham and Derby railway stations.

This year, EMR has collaborated with local artist, Mel Langton and eight community groups across the East Midlands to create unique artwork installations for Remembrance Day. The project has been jointly funded by EMR, Community Rail Network and six Community Rail Partnerships across the East Midlands.

The interactive workshops saw participants use different mediums of art to represent Remembrance in their community. Each group created a unique piece that is now on display at their local station, alongside a plaque and QR code.

The eight individual pieces will travel across the East Midlands by rail and will be installed to create one large piece of art at both Nottingham and Derby railway stations. When the pieces come together, they will cleverly create a new piece of artwork. The collective piece will be on display by the war memorials, in time for the services on Armistice Day (Friday 11^th November).

The artwork will be hosted on this link. Any customers travelling through the local stations where the individual pieces are displayed, can scan the QR code where it will take them to the bigger artwork installation piece on the EMR webpage.  

One of the community groups involved were the Sleaford Cadets, from St. George’s Academy, Sleaford. The Cadets took part in a film that shares what Remembrance Day means to them. Ex-service EMR employees feature alongside the Cadets, sharing their experience in the Armed Forces and how important it is to reflect on Remembrance Day.

Supporting The Veteran’s Charity, EMR has also created special ‘Routes of Remembrance’ Lanyards for employees and applied a vinyl to a cl222 train, which can be seem travelling on EMR’s Intercity route along the Midland Main Line.

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