All aboard for a competition your kids will never forget!
At West Midlands Railway, we know children love travelling on our trains.
Now, we’re offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance for four lucky winners to go one step further and take charge of a real-life West Midlands Railway train!
Our lucky winners will have the chance to work alongside our team as a “junior conductor” for the day – that means they’ll be travelling in the train cab, greeting customers, and even making announcements over the tannoy.
During the October half term holidays, on Wednesday 1st November, the four lucky winners will get to experience this money can't buy prize, conducting one of our brand-new trains!
Having officially joined the railway network on our Shrewsbury, Hereford and newly named Elephant & Bear line, our smart new Class 196 trains feature more seats, better streaming capabilities with free Wi-Fi, additional under-seat luggage space and bike storage, greater accessibility, and toilets on every service. Our new Class 730 trains with the same great benefits will be arriving on the Walsall to Wolverhampton and Cross City lines over the coming months.
To apply to become a junior conductor, children aged between four and ten (via their parents or guardians) are invited to share a video, of up to 30 seconds, on either Facebook , Instagram , or TikTok tagging West Midlands Railway and using #LittleTrainConductor.
Within the video, they’ll need to tell us exactly what they love most about trains, where they last went on a train, and why they think they should be a conductor for the day.
Never fear if you can’t upload to social media, videos can also be submitted via email to [email protected]
The winners have been announced!
Congratulations to Alex, age 7, from Northampton, Roksana, age 5, from Church Stretton, Oliver, age 9, from Coventry, Benjamin, age 7, from Kidderminster, Charlie, age 9, from Sutton Coldfield, Noah, age 5, from Telford, Sammy, 10, from Kings Heath, Adam, age 6, from Stourbridge, Zachary age 7, from Walsall, Alfred, 8, from Wolverhampton and Franco, age 5, from Sutton Coldfield.
Under the guidance of the WMR team, the four chosen children along with their parents or guardians will get to experience what it’s really like to conduct a train.
From seeing inside the train’s cab and checking tickets, to greeting customers and even making announcements over the public tannoy system, it will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for budding train fans. Not to mention receiving their own whistle, high-viz waistcoat, and flags to ensure their journey as a conductor runs smoothly.
Each winner will receive a gift box with:
- acme thunderer whistle
- West Midlands Railway tie
- high-viz waistcoat
- set of red and green flags
- hand lamp
The prize includes transport to and from the event onboard West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services.
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Any costs incurred in addition to the prize listed above are at winner’s own expense.
The prize is non-transferrable, and no cash alternative will be offered. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute an alternative prize of equivalent or greater value and (b) in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. No correspondence will be entered into.
When the prize is tickets provided by West Midlands Railway, West Midlands Railway is not responsible for any loss, claim or expense arising from travel. All travel tickets are offered under the National Rail Conditions of Carriage.
To obtain details of the winner please email [email protected] stating the name of the competition in the subject heading 4 weeks after the closing date.
General
- This competition is operated by West Midlands Railway, a brand of West Midlands Trains Limited with offices registered at 2nd Floor, St Andrews House, St Andrews Street, London, EC4A 3AG.
- Acceptance of these terms and conditions is a condition of entry to the competition. By submitting a competition entry, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions.
- If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions West Midlands Railway may, at its sole discretion, exclude you from participating in the competition, to withdraw the prize or to require you to return the prize if already received.
- West Midlands Railway reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel, or amend the competition.
- If a provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, that part shall not affect the validity of the other provisions in these terms and conditions and shall be severed from those provisions.
- These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law, and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Ownership
- All competition entries and any accompanying material submitted to West Midlands Railway will become the property of West Midlands Railway on receipt and will not be returned. By submitting an entry video of your child to win the Junior Conductor competition on either Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, you automatically give consent for your video to be used by West Midlands Railway for any marketing purposes.
- You agree that West Midlands Railway may make your entry and accompanying materials available on its website www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk and any other social media platform in connection with any publicity of the competition.
- You agree to grant West Midlands Railway a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights, in the competition entry and any accompanying materials, to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the competition entry and any accompanying materials for such purposes.
- Where your entry and accompanying materials contain your personal data, or the personal data of others, your/their consent to use this information can be withdrawn at any time by emailing [email protected]
Limitation of liability
Insofar as is permitted by law, West Midlands Railway, its agents, and distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of West Midlands Railway, its agents and/or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.
- The competition will close at midnight on Friday, 15th September 2023.
- Competition entries must be received by West Midlands Railway by no later than midnight on Friday, 15th September 2023. All competition entries received after that time will not be accepted.
- To enter children (via their parents and guardians) should share the video, up to 30 seconds, on either Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok tagging West Midlands Railway* and using #LittleTrainConductor hashtag.
- The competition is open to children aged four to ten inclusive. We are unable to accept entries from children that do not meet the criteria.
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You will need to tag West Midlands Railway then use the competition hashtag #LittleTrainConductor to be considered.
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Video submissions can also be entered via email to [email protected] . Title your e-mail #LittleTrainConductor.
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Within the video, your child needs to tell us exactly what they love most about trains, and why they think they should be a conductor for the day.
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You will need to ensure you and your child are available on Wednesday, 1st November when the Junior Conductor event on a WMR train will take place. Exact times will be finalised nearer the time. Failure to be available may result in a further draw and another entrant being chosen. Judges’ decision is final. No alternative prizes or cash equivalents are available.”
- Privacy settings for the competition entry post have to be set to public, with enabled comment option. If you do not want to do this you can email your video in.
- Only one entry per person. Duplicate entries will not be counted.
- The winner will be chosen by a judging panel.
* When tagging West Midlands Railway, please use the following: Facebook (@westmidsrailway), Instagram (@westmidlandsrailway) and TikTok (@wmrailway).
- No purchase is necessary.
- The competition is open to residents in the UK aged 4-10 years, except employees of Transport UK Group Ltd (the UK parent company of West Midlands Trains and its subsidiary businesses), their families, agents or any third party directly associated with administration of the competition.
- By entering the competition, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and eligible to claim the prize. West Midlands Railway may require you to provide proof of your identity and that you are eligible to enter the competition – you agree to cooperate with such enquiries.
- By entering the competition, you confirm that your entry video and any accompanying materials and submissions:
- do not contain any material which is defamatory of any person, or which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- do not promote sexually explicit material, violence or any illegal activity.
- do not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- do not infringe any rights of any other person.
- are not likely to deceive any person.
- are not made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
- are not threatening, abusive or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
- are not likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
- are not used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
- do not give the impression that they emanate from West Midlands Railway, if this is not the case; do not advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright or trademark infringement or computer misuse.
- West Midlands Railway reserves all rights to disqualify you if your conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the competition or if (in West Midland’s Railway opinion) you are in breach of these terms and conditions.
- West Midlands Railway reserves the right to contact the relevant authorities to report any inappropriate content you submit in connection with the competition or otherwise.
- Due to the high volume of entries the winner will now be notified via their channel of their entry before the end of Friday 6th October 2023. This will either be via a DM on social or email for entries to [email protected]
- It is entrants' responsibility to enable comments under the competition post to allow communication with West Midlands Railway in order for us to notify you, if you win the prize.
- The winner must claim their prize by providing their details within 3 days of the Promoter sending notification. If the prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse, and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with these rules.
- Once the winners have been contacted and have accepted the prize, West Midlands Railway will enter correspondence with the winners for the acceptance of the prize and to provide instructions for the prize day.
- The prize may not be claimed by a third party on your behalf without first providing West Midlands Railway with your prior written consent.
- West Midlands Railway does not accept any responsibility if you are not able to take up the prize.
- The decision of West Midlands Railway is final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
By entering the competition, you agree that any personal data supplied to West Midlands Railway in connection with the competition (including your name, image and contact details) may be used by West Midlands Railway, its partners and/or any third-party suppliers (as applicable) in connection with the administration of the competition only. Please review West Midlands Railway’s Privacy Policy for more information on how West Midlands Railway may use your personal data.
In accordance with the Advertising Standards Agency guidelines, West Midlands Railway are required to publish the name and county of residence of the winner. By entering the competition, you consent to the publication of this information.
To contact West Midlands Railway or to de-register and withdraw from the competition please email [email protected] .