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Tim Sparrow Awarded MBE

December 30, 2025, by Samantha Lear
The Southeast Communities Rail Partnership (SCRP), which works to link local communities with their railway, has welcomed the award of an MBE to one of its longstanding volunteer directors, Tim Sparro...
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White hearts shared across stations on White Ribbon Day

November 25, 2025, by Samantha Lear
  The Southeast Community Rail Partnership (SCRP) will today distribute white hearts across its network to raise awareness of support services and signpost sources of help in recognition of White...
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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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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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Community Rail Week at Tonbridge Station

June 2, 2025, by Sharon Gray
Students and staff from the Oaks Specialist College (Tonbridge) were part of the Community Rail Week celebration at Tonbridge Station.  They displayed items made by the students who participate in th...
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Tonbridge station – new artwork on display

, by Sharon Gray
As part of the Railway 200 celebrations an original piece of artwork has gone on display on platform 3 at Tonbridge station. This clever design by Molly McCarthy, a student at Reigate School of art, w...
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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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Railway 200’s touring exhibition train

March 3, 2025, by Paul Bromley
A special touring train to mark 200 years of the modern railways is coming to our area. The touring train, named Inspiration, is expected to visit 60 locations across Britain over the 12 months up to ...
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Great British Railways Consultation begins

February 18, 2025, by Fiona Morton
As you will have seen in the news, the Government is seeking views on new policies to be included in the forthcoming Railways Bill, which will enable the establishment of Great British Railways (GBR)....
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