The ‘Rail Journey to Recovery’ is an innovative project between Community Rail Cumbria and Turning Point, a national charity…
The Rail Journey to Recovery
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
The ‘Rail Journey to Recovery’ is an innovative project between Community Rail Cumbria and Turning Point, a national charity…
Category: Sustainable travel
Overview The idea of the Carbon Reduction Challenge was to run a programme of school engagement devised by Devon and…
Category: Tourism
Overview Research carried out at a number of public engagement events showed that Lincolnshire was relatively unknown as a visitor…
Category: Arts and culture, Diversity and social inclusion
Overview Smethwick Rolfe Street is an inner-city station near Birmingham, opened in 1852, in one of the most diverse parts…
Category: Leisure and heritage, Marketing and communications
Overview This was an ambitious event involving 21 local community groups, during the World War One 100th anniversary remembrance period…
Category: Marketing and communications
Overview When a long-held aspiration is close to being achieved, it’s important to seal the deal, and that’s what happened…
Category: Arts and culture, Children and young people
Kilmarnock Connections is a permanent public artwork that aimed to revitalise Kilmarnock Station Underpass, officially opened on 7 December…
Category: Children and young people
Overview The objective was to create and produce a rail safety film where the message would be understood by children…
Category: Arts and culture
Overview The Mid Cheshire Line Community Rail Partnership working closely with the Friends of Littleborough Stations and Community Rail Lancashire…
Category: Children and young people
Overview Young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) often struggle to access public transport for a range of…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Women in Community Rail (WiCR) was established to help support colleagues in the community rail family work towards a more…
About Sheila Sheila Davidson has been involved with the Friends of Hindley Station from the beginning and has worked tirelessly…
Category: Volunteering
Neil Williams is described as a “truly outstanding” volunteer. He is the founder member of Friends of Glossop Station (FOGS)…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Overview The Strawberry Line Cafe Project Interest Company (CIC) was set up in 2008 to restore and run a community…
Category: Volunteering
Overview There is a well-established collective in the borough that Alexandra Palace station is in with the unusual name of…
Category: Community stations
Overview The main roof of Lowestoft Station was removed in 1992, leaving a concourse surrounded by derelict or unused buildings,…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims Confident and safe use of public transport is a right that must be available to all people…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims The film ‘Broken Lives Mended’ sets out to illustrate how involvement with rail has had a…
Category: Arts and culture
Concept and aims The Friends of Rose Hill Station, in Marple, recognised that their area had an ageing population, with…
Category: Arts and culture, Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Dwell Time was developed as an arts project to raise awareness of mental wellbeing and to provide…
Category: Community stations, Gardens
Concept and aims The Poacher Line Community Rail Partnership had identified a neglected piece of land, including an old station…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Research suggests there is a strong link between high poverty levels and low educational attainment. According to…
Category: Children and young people, Tourism
Concept and aims During the spring of 2019 a number of community engagement projects called ‘CreativiTea Trains’ took place…
Category: Marketing and communications
Concept and aims The Looe Valley Line in Cornwall has a fascinating history dating back more than 150 years. The…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims With more than 850,000 people in Britain living with dementia, including tens of thousands near the Bentham…
Category: Tourism
Concept and aims The Heart of Wales Line Development Company set out to create a long-distance walking trail linked to…
Category: Volunteering
About Julie’s Twitter handle, @ManyHatsJulie, says it all. She has been involved in campaigning for improvements in rail services for…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims Bolton Station Community Development Partnership (BSCDP) has been working with two Prince’s Trust teams over the last…
Category: Children and young people
Concept and aims North Staffordshire CRP wanted a fresh approach to their new line guide for 2019 – 20. When…
Category: Children and young people, Diversity and social inclusion
Seats to Sacks is an innovative project devised by Community Rail Lancashire, that aimed to reduce social isolation whilst turning…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Concept and aims Community Rail Lancashire has been working with Arts2Heal, a small charity in Blackburn that was set up…
Category: Marketing and communications
Heart of England CRP Heart of England Community Rail Partnership is a recently formed community rail partnership, covering stations between…
Category: Children and young people
Kent Community Rail Partnership and Sheppey College wanted to work together to provide opportunities for students to get involved in…
Category: Diversity and social inclusion
Music has the power to engage people, that is the simple concept behind ‘Lyric and Line’. Singer-songwriter Gareth Davies-Jones approached…
Category: Arts and culture, Children and young people, Diversity and social inclusion
This project was born when Community Rail Lancashire (CRL) began work with the Carlton Junior and Infant School in Dewsbury,…
Category: Arts and culture, Diversity and social inclusion, Marketing and communications, Tourism
Track Record came about due to the fondness that local Bristol poets and musicians Eyebrow and The Spoke had for…
Category: Community stations
Haslemere became a ‘community’ station back in 2015, bringing together a huge range of partners including the town’s council, business…
Category: Community stations, Marketing and communications, Tourism
North Yorkshire’s Hunmanby Station was scheduled to see the best train service in its history from May last year, with…
Category: Children and young people, Diversity and social inclusion
In 2019, only a quarter of employees working in core Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) industries were women. A…
Category: Marketing and communications, Sustainable travel, Tourism
The aim of this joint project between The Bittern Line, Wherry Lines, East Suffolk Lines, Hereward Line, Essex and South…
Category: Children and young people, Tourism
Away from the beauty of the Lake District National Park, West Cumbria has 29 communities ranked in the top ten…
Category: Marketing and communications, Tourism
The Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnership and Lowestoft Central Project team wanted to offer unique tours of Lowestoft Signal Box,…
Category: Volunteering
Following the retirement of a couple who had tended the station planters for many years, it became somewhat neglected and…
Category: Volunteering
Community Rail Network and Rail Delivery Group created a special Railway Family Supporting Communities Award for the 2020 Community Rail…
Category: Children and young people
The seeds for our winning entry were first sown back in 2017, when colleagues within community rail began discussing the…
Glad to see these benches installed at last - they do look great ... and a project funded from our #CommunityRail S… https://t.co/nJpObTQ3wO
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