Category: News

August 10, 2026

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…

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August 6, 2026

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…

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August 4, 2026

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…

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July 20, 2026

New North Downs Way Station Map Boards 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 Line are in easy walking distance of the…

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July 9, 2026

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…

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July 9, 2026

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…

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June 18, 2026

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….

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June 18, 2026

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…

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