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🤝 helping others through volunteering
🚄 empowering more people to #TryTheTrain
💟 establishing stations as community hubs
🦾 contributing to inclusive and more resilient societies

#CommunityRail is with communities, for communities.

Happy #InternationalDayOfCharity 🌍

📸 Heart of Wales Line CRP
Photo courtesy of the Heart of Wales Line CRP showing two people doing gardening work on the platform of a station. A stationary train can be seen in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Ever wondered what #CommunityRail initiatives do?

They:
🚄 empower more people to #TryTheTrain
🗣️ build travel confidence
🌍 encourage switching from car to public transport for a more sustainable future

Learn more this #CommunityRailWeek 👉 communityrail.org.uk #Railway200

📸 Darent Valley CRP.
Photo courtesy of Darent Valley CRP showing a group of volunteers doing some gardening work at Otford Station.
May 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#CRA25 #ShortlightSpotlight 🏆

In 2023-24, Bishop Line CRP visited 22 schools and engaged 3,791 young people, delivering 98 interactive workshops and #TryTheTrain trips to raise awareness of the dangers of trespassing, improve rail safety knowledge and boost travel confidence 👩‍💼
Photo showing Bishop Line CRP rail education officer Jess talking to a group of primary school children on a station platform. She is showing them how to purchase tickets using a Northern ticket vending machine.
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Final day of #CommunityRailWeek saw the Abbey Line CRP team at #WatfordGreenFestival promoting the #AbbeyLine and #SustainableTravel. Great interest in #TryTheTrain and the #AbbeyLineTrail, making new contacts and catching up with @watfordmayor.bsky.social
June 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Working alongside Optalis, Southeast Communities Rail Partnership co-designed a bus and train travel workshop to support young people with additional needs and their carers to #TryTheTrain safely, confidently and independently 🤝 #RailSafetyWeek
Optalis Supported Employment Service - try a train and bus workshops 🚉
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June 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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It's fantastic to see the ways our members engage young people with #CommunityRail 🫶

As part of the Platforms for Change programme, a group of Cub Scouts have returned to Barnstaple Station for a day of activities and a #TryTheTrain trip 🚉
Cub Scouts ‘get on board’ with community rail activities at Barnstaple Station - Community Rail Network
A group of 12 Cub Scouts have returned to Barnstaple Station for a day of community rail activities, followed by a try the train trip to Eggesford, as part of
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August 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The Esk Valley Railway FORGET-ME-NOT DEMENTIA TRAIN confirmed dates are 1st train is on 19th March 2025 followed by 21st May, 16th July and 17th September. Visit our website for further details: www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk
Home - Esk Valley Raliway
trythetrain@eskvalleyrailway.co.uk    07584419114 Welcome to the Esk Valley Railway From the heart of Middlesbrough to the historic seaside town of Whitby, passing through the North York Moors Nationa...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Yarbrough Academy pupils had a real treat in July thanks to an engaging, educational trip led by Barton Cleethorpes CRP and East Midlands Railway.

The day involved:
🦺 interactive rail safety lessons
🚅 an exciting #TryTheTrain trip to Cleethorpes
🏖️ an afternoon of fun at the seaside!
Photo showing the large group of pupils and their teachers, posing against a big billboard outside the station. Photo showing the group of pupils having fun at the seaside, playing in the sand and sea. Photo showing Dawn Branton, Barton Cleethorpes CRP officer, smiling and posing with the children on board the train to Cleethorpes. Photo showing a young boy, smiling and pointing out the train window at a painted Railway 200 mural at Cleethorpes Station.
August 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM