Greater Anglia has recognised volunteers across its network who work all year round to care for and enhance their local railway stations.

At the train operator’s annual Station Adoption Awards, the best achievements of the last 12 months from amongst its 330-strong team of volunteer station adopters were formally recognised.

Great effort and dedication were evident at all adopted stations by the volunteers, who work with Greater Anglia to improve their local stations for the benefit of the community, but particularly impressive progress or initiatives were highlighted across 11 categories including best station, best adopter group, environmental and innovation award, and community involvement award.

The station adopter team at Hockley won the ‘Best Innovative Contribution – Railway 200 Award’ for bringing their community together at the station by holding an event to celebrate 200 years of the birth of the modern railway in Britain.

Visit Greater Anglia’s website to read the full details about the winners across Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, Essex and Norfolk and Suffolk.

Alan Neville, Greater Anglia’s customer and community engagement manager, said: “We are so grateful to our amazing team of station adopters for everything they are achieving at their stations – and their work is loved and appreciated by the community too.

“The adopters know their stations and the needs of their community well and we are happy to support their aims through small grants and facilitating improvements. I would like to thank them for everything they do to help make their stations welcoming for passengers and a real asset to the community.”

Learn more about Greater Anglia’s work in the community here.