Rail Safety Week 2026

4th Milton Regis (St Mary's) Cubs

Scout badge, Platforms for Change. Featuring an image of a train approaching on a track, a Scouting logo appears in the cab, there is a British Railways double arrow logo at the foot of the badge.

On the evening of Monday 15th June, the 4th Milton Regis Cubs visited Sittingbourne train station to learn about rail safety and have an adventure travelling to Sheerness-on-Sea and back. Led by Antonia Boorman (Head Scout Leader), twenty-three cubs along with nine Scout Leaders and Assistant Leaders, arrived at Sittingbourne station at 6:00pm.

We were joined by Southeastern’s station manager, Luke and one of the station supervisors, Jake.

A rail safety quiz sheet with seven multiple choice questions. An outline picture of an elephant with ggogly eyes. An outline picture of a football pitch

We began with a fun quiz on the station forecourt, aimed at helping our cubs understand why they should Keep Off The Tracks and what the dangers of misbehaving on the railway can be.

 

As all the cubs now know, Rail Safety is all about elephants and football pitches. Trains weigh as much as a lot of elephants, and because they go really fast they take the length of a lot of football pitches to stop. It takes a lot of electricity to make them go.

 

This makes the tracks a dangerous place to be. It’s really easy to stay safe, always Keep Off The Tracks.

Two blank rail tickets with steam engine shaped holes punched through them, two tickets for a Kids for a Quid return ticket between Sittingbourne and Sheerness. A set of three stickers, "I Love Trains", "Trains are Fun", "I Travelled by Train Today". A word search puzzle with eight station names.

After reminders to always walk around stations, never run, we made our way through the station, taking care to stay behind the yellow line. Sometimes we needed to walk in single file to stay safe. Our train was waiting and we stepped onboard, taking care to mind the gap between the platform and the train.

 

Once settled into their seats, the cubs were given stickers and special tickets from Luke and Jake. The trip offered a chance to talk, to ask railway questions and look at the changing scenery outside the windows.


On arrival at Sheerness-on-Sea, a few cubs swapped seats for a change of view and we dished out wordsearch and pens to keep everyone busy on the trip back to Sittingbourne.

Antonia said, “Thank you for session, it was great for the Cubs to experience something different whilst learning about rail safety. A lot of children nowadays don’t get the opportunity to travel on the train so it was good that that were able to do that.”

 

We would like to thank Luke, Jake and the rest of the Southeastern team at Sittingbourne for their help and support.

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