TPE spreads festive cheer with Christmas cards designed by eight-year-old
TransPennine Express has made hundreds of specially designed Christmas cards available for customers to use and spread festive cheer.
Eight-year-old Quinn Kelly, from York, won a competition to design TPE’s Christmas card after her brilliant artwork received a festive seal of approval.
Now with thousands of people travelling home for Christmas on-board TPE services, customers can pick up Quinn’s card for free, write a message to a friend or loved one and help spread festive cheer.
In addition to Quinn’s Christmas card, Santa and a number of ‘Charm Elves’ are set to travel across the TPE network on 20 December to surprise customers and share the holiday joy.
The festive travellers will be giving out the cards, mince pies, golden envelopes with prizes in, and other surprises to help spread Christmas cheer.
Kathryn O’Brien, Customer Service & Operations Director at TransPennine Express, said: “Quinn’s Christmas card design is absolutely brilliant and after she won our internal competition, we knew that we had to make them available for our customers too.
“Anyone travelling home for Christmas who may have forgotten to pick up a card for their loved ones can now have one of Quinn’s wonderful cards and write their own personal message.”
Quinn’s design features one of TPE’s Nova trains with Father Christmas and his reindeer travelling overhead and a bundle of presents too.
Quinn’s dad, Adam Kelly, a conductor instructor at TPE, said: “When we heard Quinn had won the competition we were over the moon. She’s always had a great eye for art and so we knew she would design a cracking Christmas card. I’ll be picking up some of the free cards on offer to send to all our family and friends.”
The festive giveaway activity is part of TPE’s commitment to making journeys better, offering a ‘wow’ factor on its services, and empowering colleagues to connect with customers.