Yesterday we headed out with a lovely group of visually impaired and blind adults for a trip to Southport, organised in collaboration with the Thomas Pocklington Trust and the Sight Loss Council. It’s the first of four trips we’re making along the Liverpool–Southport line, with future trips planned to Crosby, Formby, and one more location still to be decided.

On each trip, the group is capturing photographs of places of interest along the line. With support from photographer Diane Muldowney, the images will be edited to reflect the different ways members of the group experience sight — from partial vision to light sensitivity to total blindness.

The final photographs will be displayed, we hope, at Southport Station, offering passengers a glimpse of what they could explore along the line — and a powerful reminder that we all see the world in different ways.

It was a thoughtful, inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable day — and I’m really looking forward to the next adventure.