Southeastern in Bloom 2026 We are celebrating the winners of the annual Southeastern In Bloom competition, which has seen staff and station adopters across the railway transform their stations, depots, and offices into vibrant, eco-friendly spaces. Despite record-breaking summer heat, everyone across the Southeastern network rose to the challenge, creating stunning displays using drought-resistant plants,…
Travelling with Confidence – 2026 Community Rail Network’s Travelling with Confidence project, grant-funded by the Motability Foundation, empowers hundreds of disabled people to develop their confidence, skills and resilience when planning and making trips by rail and connected modes. Kent CRP is one of several community rail partnerships that have received small grants as part of the…
Tracks And Trails Experience With Walk Wild Wellbeing Saturday 14th November Working with Plantlife Ranscombe Reserve, Medway Council, and the Friends of Cuxton station; Kent Community Rail Partnership have created a waymarked walking route connecting Cuxton station to the Ranscombe Reserve. The waymarking will help people who make sustainable travel choices to reach Ranscombe Reserve and…
Train Travel Training and Guided Walk with Grow 19 29th September 2026 Kent CRP worked with the North Downs Way National Trail’s ‘Putting Down Routes’ project, to organise a four-mile guided walk between Lenham and Harrietsham railway stations. The group comprised 11 Grow 19 College students with special educational needs, aged 18–21, and three tutors….
Sustainable Tourism Guided Walk Harrietsham station to Hollingbourne station 17th September 2026 Image – Southeastern Working in collaboration with the North Downs Way National Trail ‘Putting Down Routes’ project, Kent CRP managed a 4 mile guided walk from Harrietsham railway station to Hollingbourne railway station. Twenty one members of Southeastern’s Communications Team attended as part…
Christmas Train at Tonbridge Saturday 5th December 2026 Something very exciting is coming to Tonbridge this Christmas. Does your little one love trains? Have they ever wanted to sit in the driver’s seat of a real train? This Christmas they can. On Saturday 5th December the Tonbridge £5K Challenge is bringing a very special…
Rail Safety Session and Try A Train Trip, 8th Sheppey Cubs On the evening of Monday 14th September, the 8th Sheppey Cubs visited Sheerness-on-Sea train station to learn about rail safety and have an adventure travelling by train to Sittingbourne and back. Led by Kelly Strudwick (Akela), nineteen cubs along with five Scout Leaders and…
Walk Tonbridge Festival, Medway Valley Walk Rail Hike. We were excited when Walk Tonbridge approached us to see how Kent CRP could help them with this year’s Walk Tonbridge Festival. The proposal was for Walk Tonbridge to lead a group on a long distance walk. At around 14 miles this would be a Tracks…
Community Rail Network visit our Swale Rail Line At the end of August we were joined by Karen Bennett Education and Youth Engagement Advisor at Community Rail Network and Luke Wood, Southeastern station manager for a trip along our Swale Rail Line. Swale Rail is where Kent CRP began in 2003 and we have built…
Swale Rail Line Group meeting at Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway We were delighted to accept an invite from Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway to hold our line group meeting at their Kemsley Down site. Our visit began at Sittingbourne Viaduct station, where a diesel hauled service had been arranged specially to take us…
Launch of our New North Downs Way Station Map Boards,Tuesday 18th August at Hollingbourne Station Working in collaboration with Kent County Council, we aim to increase sustainable tourism along the North Downs Way, by promoting rail to trail routes from and to Charing, Lenham, Harrietsham and Hollingbourne stations. All four stations along the Kent Downs…
New Station Adoption For Yalding We were recently approached by Derek who wants to make improvements to brighten his local station at Yalding. We introduced him to Southeastern’s Station Adoption scheme and Southeastern provided their safety brieifing on Saturday 8th August. Once the formalities and site safety checks are complete, Derek will begin…
Queenborough History Weekend, 5th – 7th June At the start of June, the Queenborough Society and Queenborough Guildhall Museum came together to celebrate the history of the town, from Charles I to Charles III 1625 – 2025. They invited the whole community to get involved with a self-led tour of the town. Window displays gave…
Maidstone Repair Cafe, Promotional Pop-up Stall Maidstone CAN, our Maidstone West station adopters invited us along to their Children and Families themed Maidstone Repair Cafe on Saturday 1st August. We saw an opportunity to provide local support to Community Rail Network’s summer Days Out By Rail campaign, bringing along walking and cycling maps for…
Hop Pickers’ Line Heritage Group Back in January 2023, David Sargison of Paddock Wood Town Council proposed that we work with the Hop Pickers Line Heritage Group, to celebrate the former branch line that wound through the Kent countryside from Paddock Wood to Cranbrook. This would build on work from 2017, when information boards outlining…
Ashford College ESOL Student Train Travel Training and gardening support to station adopters at Borough Green & Wrotham Station, 30 June 2026 Kent CRP managed a train travel training Train Travel Training session from Ashford International with a gardening session at Borough Green & Wrotham (BG&W) station for 19 Ashford College students whose first language…
The Lenham School Wellbeing and Kindness Event, Lenham Station, 29 June 2026 Students shared messages of wellness and kindness with commuters. Students gave out 48 bags of sweet treats with wellness and kindness messages inside and wished commuters a good evening. The aim was to promote kindness and positive wellbeing. In attendance were 3 year…
Parliamentary Reception to mark the launch of the 2026 South Eastern Railway Social Impact Report, On Track to Opportunity. Chris Fribbins, volunteer Chair of Kent CRP and Clare Dowling, Senior Project Manager, Active Journeys South and East at our hosts Walk Wheel Cycle Trust were honoured to be attend the Parliamentary Reception to mark the…
Rail Safety Week 2026 Paddock Wood Pop-up On Tuesday 16th June we set up a stall at Paddock Wood station as part of Rail Safety Week, offering an opportunity to chat with passengers about how safe they feel when travelling by rail and to raise awareness of the British Transport Police 61016 text messaging service….
Rail Safety Week 2026 4th Milton Regis (St Mary’s) Cubs 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…