Community Rail Week

Community Rail Week 2025 – Monday 19 to Sunday 25 May

Community Rail Week, sponsored by Rail Delivery Group, is our biggest annual campaign. Each year, we showcase innovative projects and inspiring initiatives from across the community rail movement around a particular theme.

This year we linked in with Railway 200’s national campaign to showcase community rail projects and initiatives that celebrate the past, present and future legacy of our railway.

We encouraged everyone in community rail (and our partners and supporters) to get involved, using the week to highlight your vital work through an event, activity or online promotion linking in with the four themes of Railway 200:

Skills and education
Innovation, technology and environment
Heritage, culture and tourism
Celebrating railway people

Check out the breadth of activity across Britain on our interactive map.

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Community Rail Week aims to:

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

If you would like to discuss how your community rail partnership, station volunteer group, organisation or business can get involved in the next campaign in 2026, contact Alice, campaigns & leisure promotions coordinator.

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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.