How TeamBA works with community rail members on creative media projects and event delivery
Community Rail Network’s corporate partners offer a variety of different skill sets, knowledge and opportunities to aid our members’ work and support the growth of community rail across Britain. Some fantastic examples come from our corporate partners TeamBA, who have collaborated with several community rail partnerships and station volunteer groups on creative media projects and […]
Testimonials from community rail members working with SLC Rail & Property
Community Rail Network’s corporate partners offer a variety of different skill sets, knowledge and opportunities to aid our members’ work and support the growth of community rail across Britain. Some fantastic examples come from our corporate partners SLC Rail and Property, who assist Community Rail Network members with free rail and property expertise regarding station […]
Sustainability conversations and networking event – CMAC + Gloucestershire CRP
Community Rail Network’s corporate partners offer a variety of different skill sets, knowledge and opportunities to aid our members’ work and support the growth of community rail across Britain. One fantastic example comes from our corporate partners CMAC, who collaborated with Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership (CRP) to host an education engagement event, shining a spotlight […]
The ‘Yorkshire Dales Explorer’ – Community Rail Lancashire
Concept and aims Following suspension of the Sunday DalesRail service from the North West onto the Settle-Carlisle Line in 2023, Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) worked with a wide range of partners – including Lancashire County Council, York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Yorkshire Dales National Park, and Northern – to explore proposals for its continuation. […]
Bilingual Audio Guide – Cambrian Railway Partnership
Concept and aims The Window Seater app connects rail travellers to the world outside their window, free of charge, with place-based audio guides. Guides draw on stories from communities along railway lines, covering a wide variety of subjects from history and geography to art and culture. The Cambrian Line is one of the world’s most […]
Hidden Station – Severnside CRP
Concept and aims Recognising that the walls around Bridgwater Station would benefit from some new artwork, Seed Sedgemoor and Severnside CRP came together to bring about an exciting re-fresh. The organisations had worked together previously on Seed’s ‘What if?’ project, which saw community co-created images and poetry displayed in public advertising spaces. What happened The project began by […]
Art on the Move – East Midlands Railway & partners including the Poacher Line CRP & Robin Hood Line CRP
Concept and aims East Midlands Railway (EMR) had identified a ‘horrible’ blank wall at Nottingham Station that by 2023 they had wanted to add artwork to for about a decade. They wanted to come up with a ‘purposeful’ project to bring the space to life. They wanted to create a design that would represent the […]
Buzzing Stations – High Peak and Hope Valley CRP and station groups including Friends of Buxton Station, Friends of Glossop Station, and Friends of Hadfield Station
Concept and aims The ‘Buzzing Stations’ project was established when station groups in the Peak District, including those at Buxton, Glossop, and Hadfield, learnt about a rare and endangered bumblebee native to the High Peak, the Bilberry Bumblebee. With the support of the High Peak & Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust […]
Snodland Station improvements – Kent CRP and Five Acre Wood School
Concept and aims Kent Community Rail Partnership (CRP) works with Five Acre Wood School, coordinating activities to empower students aged 16 to 25 with additional needs to feel valued in their community and develop skills through practical experiences. Starting back in 2019, students at the school were tasked with devising and developing ideas to make […]
New station murals for Prestonpans – East Lothian CRP
Concept and aims To befit Prestonpans’ standing as Scotland’s ‘mural town’, murals and paintings have been a feature of the local station for many years. In recent times, however, the previous artwork had deteriorated beyond repair. East Lothian Community Rail Partnership (CRP) wanted to create a series of new murals depicting the industrial history and […]
