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New dates for Inspiration Train will be announced on 26th Jan and we are planning how we can provide additional activities aimed at visiting school children and families. Did our team building day go ...

Other highlights include Lottery Funding success for a Network Rail and Sussex Coast community garden project and additional station enhancements across all our lines. Discover the connection between ...

Staff have been decorating stations across our community rail lines, and SupaJam raised money for Mind with a busking session at Hove. Unused station buildings are being brought into community use on ...

For more news about Community Rail Awards 2026 plus great work from SCRP’s education team check out the SCRP Weekly Highlights 12th Dec 2025  ...

We are proud to announce the projects in our area that have been shortlisted for this year’s national Community Rail awards The SCRP projects are:   Empowering Diverse Groups – Travel Ambassa...

Check SCRP Weekly Highlights 5th Dec 2025 for the latest community rail news, events & projects from SCRP Line Officers....

Students and pupils love their activities with the education team, with one young man declaring it his “best day  at school ever”.  Our white hearts giveaways at many stations across the...

For this week’s SCRP highlights from across the lines See here...

This week we are promoting  a train mania event at the Toy Museum in Brighton. Ore community garden wins another award and we celebrate our youth engagement work with the Billingshurst Beavers. Our c...

We have been to Parliament this week to help launch the GTR Social Impact report . It was great to see so many volunteers taking part and being rewarded for their contributions. News of another award ...

At SWR Awards the Hounslow to Richmond Line Barnes Mural won Best Youth Engagement Project. Try s Train and a Bus goes from strength to strength with Brighton & Hove Buses now on board and Marshli...

More awards for our work, this time to honour Mick Burgess, former vice chair of the Marshlink Line. Lots to celebrate this week and into next. Read more here...

We were honoured to receive awards from Voluntary Action. This award reflects our engagement with a range of community organisations, schools & colleges to connect people to their railway. Crowbor...

Latest news this week includes the reaccreditation of Southeast Communities Rail Partnership from Community Rail Network on behalf of the Department for Transport. Read updates from SCRP line officers...

So many of our community rail lines feature in films and television. Downton Abbey features one of the venues that we use for our steering group meetings for the Hounslow to Richmond Line. Pictured is...

We welcome our new Line Officer for Hounslow to Richmond, Anna Stearman to the SCRP Team. Anna has a background in education and the arts. SWR features a lot this week as we are nominating lots of pro...

Check SCRP highlights for this week & news of planning for forthcoming events at https://www.southeastcrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SCRP-Weekly-Highlights-29th-Aug-2025.pdf  ...

This week the focus is on  improvements to station environments with our station partners who play such a significant role in making them places of welcome. Outreach health checks using station premi...

Railway 200 projects continue and although it is the holiday season education team have been busy and community work continues. Read more here...

SCRP’s Special Rail Fair 200 gallery from Lewes Town Hall on 1st August 2025 at https://www.southeastcrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SCRP-Special-Rail-Fair-200-Highlights-8th-Aug-2025.pdf Tha...

This week has mainly been about putting the final touches to our main Railway 200 event with our family friendly event at Lewes Town Hall on Fri 1st Aug 2025.  Our education team are having a well-ea...

We are at Bluebell Railway today as the exhibition train is in our region. We are building towards our 1st Aug event in Lewes Town Hall and are very grateful to Network Rail and Brighton and Hove Buse...

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All systems go for our Rail Fair 200 event at Lewes Town Hall on 1st Aug. We have had a great response from Network Rail, all five of our train operating companies and no fewer that 34 stall holders. ...

All steam head ahead for our Rail Fair 200 on 1st Aug in Lewes.  Glimpses of our 200 plaques are appearing at stations featuring some current station masters as well as those from the past. We are st...

At a time when unusually hot weather tests the railway infrastructure and we all get hot and bothered, it is nice to be able to share some good news stories that demonstrate that there is a lot of sup...

We are thinking about all of those railway staff who have to keep the trains running in this heat spike and of passengers who hopefully have got their water with them to keep cool. Even more reason to...

Read all about this week’s highlights here...

Read about Railway 200 celebrations & more community rail projects in this week’s news from SCRP link 6th June 2025  ...

Catch up with our continuing adventures here 30th May 2025...