SCHOOLCHILDREN have had their poetry turned into huge posters and put on display at a railway station.

Pupils from Harwich Community Primary School swapped the classroom for the railway station waiting room as part of the Words between the Lines project organised by the Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership and funded by Wordsart.

The youngsters, aged eight and nine, wrote poems on a train from Harwich Town to Manningtree, which have now been made into posters and put on display at Dovercourt Railway Station.

Terri Ryland, community rail officer, said, “The children were so proud to see their work on display at the station.

“It’s an ideal place as the poems will be seen and enjoyed by plenty of people as they wait for their trains.”

The pupils also had rail safety awareness training in school with representatives from the Essex and South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership.

Alan Neville, Greater Anglia’s customer and community engagement manager, said: “I’d like to thank the children of Harwich Community Primary for their fantastic work which I’m sure will welcome and delight everyone who visits the station.

“We are also very grateful to the Community Rail Partnership for doing this important rail safety work but also building links with the community by providing a really rewarding, creative and fun day out by train.”