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 are linking 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’re encouraging everyone in community rail (and our partners and supporters) to get involved. Consider 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 & Education
Innovation, technology & environment
Heritage, culture & tourism
Celebrating railway people

See the breadth of community rail activity happening throughout Community Rail Week, and across Britain, through our interactive map. If your event, activity or promotion isn’t included on the map, tell us about it via email so we can add it.

Each year we provide members with ideas, guidance, examples, and template materials through a digital toolkit, supporting members to make the most of the campaign and springboard off the national messages to promote their own work. If you’ve not received this toolkit by 18 April, please get in touch.

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

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.

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Community Rail Week highlights

2024

A huge thank you to everyone who got on board during 20-26 May 2024, running activities and events celebrating the theme of ‘More Than A Railway’ 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 2024.

See the full Community Rail Week 2024 review here