CAMPAIGNERS are encouraging people to help keep their plans to transform Ruabon train station in the public eye.

The Friends of Ruabon and others in the area have been trying to make the local train station fully accessible for all rail users for several years now, with the steep steps to cross from one platform to the other considered to be a challenge even for the most able of bodies, with a petition filed last year being hailed as uniting the community.

Jo Smith, Chair of Friends of Ruabon, said the lack of access for wheelchair users remains a serious one and although there are issues altering the current foot bridge, changes must be made if Ruabon is to take full advantage for being part of the gateway to the sites of North East Wales.

She said: "We need to prove that the station needs to have access, not necessarily worry ourselves with the type of access we would like as such. Sheila Dee (Transport Officer for Wrexham) has been extremely helpful."

"If you speak to anyone in Ruabon they will tell you the same, it's a nightmare, even if you're able bodied. We're the gateway to the World Heritage Site and people obviously have bikes and suitcases and I've seen them having to really struggle to carry them up those steep steps."

The campaign was started off by Susan Elan Jones MP and she remains in regular contact with the Friends of Ruabon, who since adopting the station have improved the way it looks, in terms of putting planters in place and updating the seating.

Ruabon Community Councillor Sybil Bremner has asked that people who want to see the changes made to contact either her the Friends of Ruabon group with their reasons why.

She said: "As a result of this overwhelming determination to gain equality for those who are prevented from using our station we now not only have the backing of our MP our AM and many more, but also the opportunity to push our case forward once again."

Those who haven't done so already are asked to send their feedback on the proposals via e-mail to bremner.millhouse@btinternet.com or via the Friends of Ruabon Facebook page.