Southeastern Railway 200 Celebration Highlights For 2025 To mark the close of the landmark Railway 200 year, Southeastern are celebrating everything that made Railway 200 unforgettable. From station anniversaries and depot open days to charity walks, baking competitions, a unique train tour and train unveilings, every moment reflected the passion and dedication of the railway…
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Friday 12th December 2025 Margate Try a Train: Travel Training Trip to Margate In collaboration with Diversity House, a Sittingbourne-based charity delivering a full programme of adult learning opportunities and community events, we run a “Try a Train” experience twice a year for their ESOL service users. After exploring a range of local destinations, we…
Colonel Stephens and the Hop Pickers Line, new information board unveiled at Paddock Wood https://kentcrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Video_DN.mov 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…
Valley Park School Choir, Music and Mince Pies, Maidstone East Station, Monday 8th December On the evening of Monday 8th December Maidstone East station adopters, Valley Park School students entertained passengers with Christmas songs and mince pies at Maidstone East station. The station has a large bright white foyer however the 22 students with their…
September 2025 Queenborough Guildhall Museum For 3 weeks, in late September and early October 2025, the team at Queenborough Guildhall Museum led by Caroline Howard created a truly magical Railway 200 and local history education experience at the Museum. Over 240 local school children from Queenborough Primary School, Minster School and Halfway School participated. All…
6th December 2025 Sheerness Highstreet Kent CRP at the Sheerness Christmas Event Early on Saturday 6th, we mustered near the Clock Tower on Sheerness High Street to get our stall ready for the festival celebrations that day. Chris Reed from The Big Fish Arts kindly lent us a gazebo for the day which was perfect,…
Heath Farm School’s Nature Garden Launch, Wednesday 3rd December 2025 Charing Station On Wednesday 3rd December, Charing station celebrated the launch of its nature garden, the first garden on the Kent Downs Line. The garden started with a seed of an idea 4 years ago and the launch saw a culmination of a hugely successful…
Celebrating Ashford International’s 183rd Birthday, Monday 1st December 2025 Music and Mince Pies Party On Monday 1st December, Ashford International station celebrated it’s 183 year old birthday having opened in 1842. To mark this auspicious occasion station adopters Ashford College students entertained passengers with music and mince pies. With it being the beginning of December,…
Valley Park Schol Choir at Maidstone East Station, Monday 8th December from 5:30pm Come and join the festive fun at Maidstone East station, Monday 8th December from 5:30pm. Live music and singing, mince pies and hot-chocolate. We’ll be there, come and say hello.
November 2025 EKC Sheppey College To mark Remembrance Day, EKC Sheppey College collaborated with the “Knit and Natter” Age UK group to create a poppy installation at the front of Sheerness Station, with over 200 specially made woollen poppies. Alongside, a poster about the project and the meaning behind the different colour poppies was designed…
Train Travel Training and Sustainable Tourism Guided Walk, 29 October 2025 Working in collaboration with Sarah Moon and the Kent Downs National Landscape ‘Putting Down Routes’ project, Kent CRP undertook train travel training and a guided walk on the North Downs Way for Ashford College adult learners for whom English is spoken as another language…
Sheerness Christmas Event, Sat 6th December Have a family Scenic Rail Winter day out at the Sheerness Christmas Event, Sat 6th December. Live music, craft market, food and drink, entertainment, face painting, reindeer and more. We’ll be there, come and say hello.
“Putting Down Routes” Tracks and Trails Ramble from Cuxton Station, Saturday 25th October. The Kent Downs National Landscape Putting Down Routes team partnered with Kent Community Rail Partnership and North Downs Way Ambassadors to deliver the Cuxton and Ranscombe Farm Circular Tracks and Trails Ramble. Together we bring under-represented groups into the Kent Downs, encourage sustainable…
Sunday 28th September 2025 The Criterion Heritage Centre, Blue Town, Sheerness This truly was a day to remember, celebrating the 200th anniversary of rail travel and discovering the incredible rail history of the Isle of Sheppey. Exploring the history of rail on the Isle of Sheppey In the morning, we gathered at The Criterion Blue…
Hollingbourne Station Railway 200 Heritage Day, Sunday 19 October 2025 The Community Interest Company at Hollingbourne Station hosted a highly successful Railway 200 Heritage Day open to the public and attended by visitors from as far away as Paris! Our regular volunteer Chris Anthony and Therese set up the Kent CRP stand at 10.30am…
Grow 19 College SEN students Train Travel Training From Maidstone East station to Hollingbourne station 17 October 2025 Nine SEN students and their 4 tutors undertook a train travel training journey to Hollingbourne station’s Signal Box Café. All students were between the ages of 18 and 25. At the café, some of the students practiced life…
Railway 200 art panels launched at Ashford International Station 26 Sept 2025 It felt time to replace the May 2022 Queen’s Platinum Jubilee community artwork in the station underpass and what better choice than to design artwork to celebrate Railway 200. Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre (AIMREC) enthusiastically engaged to design panels of carefully…
Rehoming More Abandoned Bikes with Maidstone CAN and Making a Difference to Maidstone Following our recent success of moving on some abandoned bikes at Maidstone West for refurbishement and re-use, Sharon Gray of Southeast Communities Rail Partnership alerted us to another pile of abandoned bikes, this time at Tonbridge station. In years gone by, these…
11th & 18th October 2025 East Kent Artists Open House I “HEART” SHEPPEY EKC Sheppey Secondary School is a flagship station adopter, adopting all 5 train stations along the Swale Rail Line (Sittingbourne, Kemsley, Swale, Queenborough and Sheerness). Across the 2024/25 academic year, pupils worked on a very special project called I “HEART” SHEPPEY where…