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Weekly Highlights 13th June 2025

Weekly Highlights 13th June 2025

June 12, 2025, by Trevor Field
Read all about this week’s highlights here...
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Birthday celebrations at Ascot Station

Birthday celebrations at Ascot Station

June 10, 2025, by Sandy Mahon
On the 4th June, we celebrated the 169th birthday of Ascot Railway Station as part of Railway 200. Ascot was opened on 4th June 1856 and is now a very busy station serving the local community, commute...
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UK’s favourite railway artwork revealed

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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SCRP achieves recognition for its high-quality educationa...

SCRP achieves recognition for its high-quality educationa...

, by Maddy Mills
The Southeast Communities Rail Partnership (SCRP) Education Service achieved national recognition for its educational visits and has been awarded the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badg...
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Cake highlights from this week’s SCRP news

Cake highlights from this week’s SCRP news

June 6, 2025, by Trevor Field
Read about Railway 200 celebrations & more community rail projects in this week’s news from SCRP link 6th June 2025  ...
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Railway 200: careers websites

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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TONBRIDGE-REIGATE – RAILWAY 200 BLUE PLAQUES

TONBRIDGE-REIGATE – RAILWAY 200 BLUE PLAQUES

, by Sharon Gray
TONBRIDGE-REIGATE – RAILWAY 200 BLUE PLAQUES by Danny Coope * * * * * * 1 JOHN TOWES 1872-1970 ENGINE TIMEKEEPER John Charles Towes, was the son of Martha and William Towes, a railway fireman an...
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Ore community garden official opening

Ore community garden official opening

June 3, 2025, by Paul Bromley
Derelict land at Ore station on the Marshlink line has been transformed into a community garden. The official opening of the space was held on Friday 23 May during Community Rail Week. HM Lord-Lieuten...
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Community Rail Week at Tonbridge Station

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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