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White Ribbon Campaign. Making transport safer everyone

October 30, 2025, by Fiona Morton
White Ribbon Day is on Nov 25th. Many transport organisations are signing up to support the campaign to end violence against women and girls. So what can we do to make travel safer for everyone? First...
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In Bloom Certificates for two stations on the Arun Valley...

October 29, 2025, by Rowena Tyler
Two stations on the Arun Valley Line have been awarded certificates in a new category, for the South and South East In Bloom (SSEiB) competition:  ‘Celebration Stations’.  Following a ri...
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Your Community Cares – Campaign for White Ribbon Day

October 16, 2025, by Lynda Spain
Southeast Communities Rail Partnership is calling on local knitters and crocheters to help spread kindness and care this White Ribbon Day. White Ribbon Day, held every year on 25 November, is a nation...
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‘Rolling back the years’ in Pulborough for Na...

September 8, 2025, by Rowena Tyler
As part of this year’s  National Open Heritage initiative, on Sunday 14th September,  visitors can enjoy The Pulborough Heritage Trails – revealing Pulborough’s past and some of it...
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Crawley Museum Rail200 exhibition, thanks to station partner

August 11, 2025, by Rowena Tyler
There’s a new exhibition at Crawley museum, all collated and installed by Arun Valley line partner, Brenda Burgess.  It will be on display for one month from 8th August, to commemorate Rail200....
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UK’s favourite railway artwork revealed

June 9, 2025, by Paul Bromley
‘Train Landscape’ by artist Eric Ravilious has been named as the best-loved railway artwork in the UK. The watercolour was painted in 1940 and shows the chalk white horse of Westbury, Wiltshire, v...
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Railway 200: careers websites

June 4, 2025, by Paul Bromley
Our Railway 200 project to create 200 ‘blue plaques’ of people and places with connections to the railways includes promoting the jobs of the future. Each of the train operators with whom ...
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70 years anniversary of last passenger train

May 19, 2025, by Rowena Tyler
On 20th May, 1955, the last passenger train ran to Petworth station, ending a much loved service. To commemorate this anniversary, as well as the better known date of 200 years of passenger rail in Br...
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Social value of Community Rail volunteers revealed

May 13, 2025, by Paul Bromley
The yearly contribution by Community Rail to the societies it serves in the South East has been revealed as more than half a million pounds. The Annual Review from Southeast Communities Rail Partnersh...
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Return of The Sussex Belle steam train

March 24, 2025, by Paul Bromley
A steam train will be travelling along our lines next month including stops at Eastbourne and Hastings. The Sussex Belle service run by the Railway Touring Company is scheduled to pass through the reg...
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