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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,…
Kent CRP Shortlisted For Community Rail Awards 2026 We are delighted to announce that two of our projects and one of our volunteers have been shortlisted for Community Rail Awards 2026. Tourism & Leisure Award – North Downs Way Trail by Rail Railway 200 Legacy Award – History, Heritage and Creative Celebration on…
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,…
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…
“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…
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…