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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Celebrating RAIL 200, September 2025 Across the Isle of Sheppey Bespoke local rail photography exhibitions will be displayed for three weeks from 15th September to 6th October, (with specific opening times and days below) across the museums of: The Criterion Heritage Centre, Sheerness Opening times: The Minster Gatehouse Museum Opening times: The Queenborough Guildhall Museum…
Thursday 18th September 2025 The Criterion Heritage Centre, Bluetown, Sheerness We are celebrating the 200th anniversary of rail passenger travel with a music and film night! Come and enjoy some beautiful musical performances at The Criterion Heritage Centre Blue Town, Sheerness, followed by FREE Community Cinema, with the showing of the “The Railway Children Return”…
Sunday 28th September 2025 The Criterion Heritage Centre, Bluetown, Sheerness We’re excited to be organising this event to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of rail passenger travel. There will a selection of talks in the morning of Sunday 28th September 2025, at The Criterion Blue Town, Sheerness, with a bus tour visiting all the key sites…
19th July 2025 Queenborough Station & Castle Connections On Saturday 19th July, we came together for a day of activities and celebration to mark Rail 200 (the 200th anniversary of passenger rail travel) and Queenborough Station’s 165th Birthday! Cycle Recycle With thanks to Swale Borough Council for organising Cycle Recycle, there were early queues for…
10.30, 3rd July 2025 Sheerness Station THE SINGING TRAIN To celebrate 200 years of train travel, since the first passenger journey on 27th September 1825, EKC Sheppey Secondary School decided to create a very special event. EKC Sheppey Secondary School is station adopter to all 5 stations along the Swale Rail Line (Sheerness, Queenborough, Swale,…
Rail 200 Queenborough Station & Green The Procession On the morning of the 17th July, over 200 pupils from Queenborough Primary School brought along special Rail 200 artwork and took part in a big procession from the Station onto the Green, creating a “200” to mark “Rail 200” and Queenborough Station’s 165th Birthday. Rail 200…
Perfect for a rainy day!!! Come and join our creative activities on Saturday: 19th July 2025 Queenborough Station & Castle Connections We look forward to celebrating Queenborough Station’s 165th Birthday, and the 200th Anniversary of passenger rail travel, on the 19th July 2025, at Queenborough. We are excited to announce the activities planned for the…
History on the first rail passenger journey 27th September 1825 The story starts in the county of Durham in Northern England. In the valleys of the River Tees and Wear, there was coal, slate, iron ore and lead. These are all very heavy material but worth a lot of money. There was a problem in…
19th July 2025 Queenborough Community Procession – Noon It is 200 years since the first passenger rail service. All over the country there are going to be celebrations. We will be celebrating in Queenborough in connection with Queenborough Station’s 165th Birthday with a community procession at 12noon on the 19th July. Come and join us!…
10.30 – 12noon, 3rd July 2025 Leaving from Sheerness Station 🎶 Rail 200: The Singing Train 🚆A Celebration of 200 Years of Passenger Rail Travel in the UK Join us for a truly unforgettable journey as we celebrate Rail 200—the bicentenary of passenger rail travel in the UK—with a magical musical experience like no other! In a joyful…
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May Kent CRP had a fantastic time with a pop-up stand at the Faversham Festival of Transport. It was a busy weekend, spanning Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May, with the Faversham streets filled with inspiring vintage vehicles. We were lucky enough to be located in the Mayor’s Parlour in…
The 4th Milton Regis Cub Pack, Sittingbourne Station Adopters for Sittingbourne Station In the depths of winter, the 4th Milton Cub Pack were hard at work preparing for spring. As part of the Platforms for Change initiative, the Cubs were learning how to saw and nail, earning their DIY badge by making from scratch…
25th January 2025 – Sittingbourne Station Birthday Celebrations On Saturday 25th January, Kent Community Rail Partnership and Southeastern celebrated the 167th birthday of Sittingbourne Train Station. Gathering at 11am, with our station adopters, the 4th Milton Regis Cub Pack, and volunteers, we got the party started, with a happy birthday announcement over the Tanoy, followed…
EKC Sheppey College – Faversham Travel Training Trip On the 26th November 2024, a group of 10 students from the Level 2 Business Course at EKC Sheppey College, their Tutor Tania Rea, Student Mentor Nadine Havill and Kent Community Rail Partnership Officer Vicky Wright, travelled from Sheerness to Faversham to visit the Abbey Physic Garden…