Community Rail Week

Community Rail Week 2026 – Monday 1 to Sunday 7 June

Coordinated by Community Rail Network and sponsored by Rail Delivery Group, our flagship profile-raising campaign returns this June. Community Rail Week celebrates the value of community rail and the positive different it makes to people and places across Britain.

On this page you can explore this year’s campaign, find out how to get involved, and take inspiration from activities delivered in previous years.

Community Rail Week aims to:

Raise the profile of community rail through celebratory communications;
Amplify and elevate members’ activities and stories, providing a platform and tools to support impactful engagement and reach wider audiences;
Encourage and enable more people to use the train as a sustainable, healthy and inclusive way to travel, through local engagement and national communications;
Forge stronger partnerships and create collaborative opportunities with the rail industry, partners and supporters.

Journeys for All

Celebrating connections, inclusion and the journeys that bring people together is at the heart of this year’s Community Rail Week theme, ‘Journeys for All’. The theme shines a spotlight on the vital role community rail plays in fostering inclusion, strengthening local connections and breaking down barriers, helping ensure that everyone can access and enjoy rail travel.

How to get involved

Community Rail Week is a chance for everyone connected with community rail to get involved in celebrating the theme. Whether you are a member group, partner organisation or supporter, there are many ways to take part throughout the week – and involvement doesn’t have to mean hosting a physical event.

Activities can be online or in person, from digital promotions and storytelling to campaigns, partnerships and local initiatives. Every contribution, big or small, helps bring Community Rail Week to life and increases its reach and impact.

Below you’ll find helpful pages that outline practical ways you can get involved.

Community rail partnerships

Station volunteer groups

Partners and supporters

Tell us about your activity

Planning something for Community Rail Week? Let us know!

Sharing details of your activities helps us celebrate and promote your work through our communications and media activity, and include it on our interactive Community Rail Week map, launching in May.

Whether you’re hosting an event, running an online promotion or sharing stories and local activity, tell us what you’re doing so we can help amplify your impact and showcase the breadth of activity across the network.

Share your activity plans here

Get in touch

If you would like to discuss how your community rail partnership, station volunteer group, organisation or business can get involved in this year’s campaign, contact Alice, campaigns & communications manager.

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Community Rail Week highlights

2025

A huge thank you to everyone who got on board during 19-25 May 2025, running activities, events and promotions celebrating the theme of ‘Railway 200’ and highlighting the benefit your work brings to local communities. Special thanks to Rail Delivery Group, who sponsored the week. We could not have hoped for a better response from members, partners and the public.

Catch up on our member-led activity from Community Rail Week 2025.