Heart of England CRP helps refugee families increase rail confidence
Heart of England Community Rail Partnership (CRP) worked with physical theatre company Highly Sprung to deliver ‘A Day Like This’ initiative at the end of 2022. The initiative involved working with families and individuals that had recently arrived from Syria, developing their rail confidence and highlighting the benefits and opportunities the railway can have for […]
South Western Railway upgrades waiting rooms across its network
Waiting rooms at ten South Western Railway (SWR) stations are being revamped with new and improved features, including enhanced facilities for community use. Waiting rooms at Basingstoke, Brockenhurst, Brookwood, Byfleet & New Haw, Earley, Farnham, Horsley, Southampton Central, Sunningdale, and Totton stations will see more than £400,000 invested to provide customers with better places to […]
Biodiversity flourishing across Wales & Borders thanks to TfW scheme
Biodiversity and nature has been enhanced across the Wales and Borders rail network through Transport for Wales’ (TfW) Green Routes project. The 18-month long initiative has been used to create green spaces and enhance biodiversity at 25 TfW railway stations and five community areas located within a mile of a station. Working alongside the TfW […]
DfT pledges to reopen Northumberland Line next summer
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that passenger train services will return to the Northumberland Line in 2024. The government is working with Northumberland County Council, Network Rail, and Northern to restore regular services from next summer, creating faster and easier journeys between Ashington and Newcastle. Six new, fully accessible stations are being built […]
Funding available to projects that connect urban communities with the natural world
Are you part of a community, youth or voluntary group? Has your station adoption group got a project idea to help connect local people with the natural world? Do you know an urban space or station platform that would be ideal for a transformation? If the answer is yes – apply for the 2023 Community […]
Education & youth engagement update – dates for your diary
Education Network meeting – Thursday 16 March The next Education Network meeting will take place on Thursday 16 March 10:00-12:00 with two main themes to discuss. Firstly, Andrew Norris from Primary Engineer will be talking about the exciting Rail Engineer programme – an opportunity for your community to get involved in some rail-related STEM (Science, […]
Community groups launch ‘Let’s go for 1 in 5’ campaign to cut car use by 20% across Scotland
Scottish members of a grassroots ‘community rail’ movement are joining forces to support a shift to greener, healthier, fairer transport, and encouraging people to ditch the car for one in five journeys when they can. The country’s network of community rail partnerships, supported by Community Rail Network and Paths for All, used the 2023 Rail […]
Students collaborate to tackle rail trespass
Students from two North-east colleges have come together to celebrate the winners of the Backtrack anti-rail-trespass competition. Prizes were awarded to the students of two winning groups who created engaging short films pledging to not trespass on the railway. The individual films have been collated into a Backtrack educational video which will be used in […]
Community Rail Network to benefit from SLC’s expertise in new corporate charity partnership
SLC Rail and SLC Property have announced a new corporate charity partnership agreement with Community Rail Network. This will see the rail and property experts provide a range of specialist advice to Community Rail Network to help them continue to keep stations at the heart of the community. Community Rail Network is a network of […]
Community Rail News – 22 Feb 2023
Hello everyone. Welcome to the latest edition of Community Rail News. We hope you are all well. Engaging with the transition to Great British Railways Following the Secretary of State for Transport’s announcements on moving forward with rail transformation and Great British Railways, we wanted to provide a quick update on our engagement with the Great British Railways […]
