Children from Breckland School in Brandon have created a series of murals for the rail station with help from a local artist, ‘one’, Suffolk County Council, Forest Heath District Council and Norfolk County Council.

The mural will be officially unveiled by Richard Spring MP at 11.00 on Friday 3 November.

The Breckland School Steel Band will be there to provide entertainment, and there will be guests from ‘one’ railway, local councils and the businesses who contributed to the project. Funding was provided by several local businesses, and ‘one’ supported the project and installed the mural for the school.

The mural, painted in acrylics depicts scenes from the history and life of the town and surrounding countryside. Many of the images were drawn by children from Breckland Middle School with other adults and children contributing images at an open workshop in Brandon Country Park. The mural is designed as ten separate panels which also work together as a complete picture. Each panel focuses on elements of Brandon such as the river, history, buildings and wildlife.

The ceremony was hosted by Friends of Brandon Station, who are the Station Adopters under the Adopt-A-Station scheme operated by ‘one’ and helped win a recent award for most improved station.  The mural will now be on permanent display for local people and visitors to the town to enjoy.

Clive Morris, Rural Business Director for ‘one’, said, “The mural is fantastic and will really enhance the appearance of the station, bringing some life and colour. It also represents the fact that this is a rail station at the heart of its community and it is wonderful to see the schoolchildren getting involved in a project that benefits the town.”

Artist Nicola Marry Wood added: “Bringing together all the various images drawn by children from 4 to 13 was quite a challenge. I used as many of their pictures as possible, along with images I designed. Input from a range of adults at the open workshop including the Friends of Brandon Station has also been incorporated. The aim of the mural is that it will take repeated viewings, working well as individual panels as well as be seen as a whole image when glimpsed from a fast train.”