TO MARK the 80th anniversary of D-Day, people travelling into Worcester Foregate Street will receive the same greeting heroes were given when returning home. 

On Thursday, June 6, grateful staff and volunteers from Stepway and the Salvation Army will be welcoming people off trains with tea, coffee and cake. 

This was the same greeting The Salvation Army gave brave heroes in 1944. 

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Everyone serving refreshments will be dressed in authentic uniform from the Second World War. 

Some veterans will be around wearing blazers with their service badges. 

The idea was the brainchild of Stepway founder and CEO Dawn Turner to commemorate the bravery, strength and sacrifice of those who fought on the Normandy beaches 80 years ago. 

People will be at Foregate Street between 10am and 2pm on the day. 

They will also be at Rowley Regis station, which has services travelling to Worcester, from 7.30am for two hours and again between 3.30pm and 6pm. 

Stepway is a military charity set up to help all veterans adapt to civilian life and work towards combatting adjustment disorder. 

Dawn Turner said: “We were trying to think of something outside the box and felt recreating the way heroes were welcomed home at the stations across the country would be a really nice tribute. 

"Our tribute will help to capture those people who are working and can’t attend all the different functions to feel like they were included.

"So many families were destroyed so we can live in peace, sometimes we take these things for granted.

"If it wasn’t for those who fought and sacrificed their lives we wouldn’t have our freedom today so I think days like this are so important to remember what happened and learn lessons from it."

Thursday marks 80 years since the D-Day landings, which saw the Allied invasion of Normandy.  

The day marked a seminal moment in the Allies victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.