🚆 Case Study: Travelling Classrooms – Making Tracks to Inclusion (Railway 200)
Coming 2025–2026: Celebrating 200 Years of Railway History with a Social Impact Twist To mark the bicentenary of railway history in Scotland, Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership is launching an exciting new project: Travelling Classrooms – Making Tracks to Inclusion: Railway 200. This innovative initiative will bring together local communities, schools, and support groups across Lanarkshire for a dynamic, immersive learning journey—onboard real train services. 🎯 What’s it all about? Between May 2025 and April 2026, we’ll be delivering a series of free and subsidised rail journeys, each…
Case Study: Rail Safety Friendly Project – Educating Tomorrow’s Passengers
Location: Rutherglen, Cambuslang, Newton, Blantyre, Hamilton, Airbles, and MotherwellTheme: Rail Safety, Education, Community EngagementPartners: Rail 74 CRP, ScotRail, Learn Live, Local Schools, CRP Volunteers About the Project The Rail Safety Friendly Project is Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership’s (CRP) flagship education initiative for 2024–2025. Focused on improving rail safety awareness in local schools, the project builds strong partnerships with educators, learners, and rail operators to help reduce rail-related accidents and build a new generation of safe, confident rail users. Working with the Learn Live team and CRP volunteers,…
Case Study: Nature at Newton – Greening Our Local Station
Location: Newton Station, South LanarkshireTheme: Biodiversity, Community Engagement, Sustainable TravelPartners: Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership, ScotRail, Clyde Gateway, Local Volunteers, Rutherglen High School Introduction Newton Station is more than just a transit hub – it’s becoming a green gateway for the local community. Through the Nature at Newton initiative, Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership (CRP) has brought local people together to transform the station into a pocket of biodiversity and beauty, connecting nature with everyday rail travel. The Challenge Newton Station, located in a busy commuter corridor, was…
See What We Achieved Together: Annual Impact Review Now Live
We’re proud to share Rail 74’s latest Annual Impact Review – a snapshot of the positive change we’ve created together over the past year. From community events and local partnerships to volunteer stories and environmental impact, the review highlights how we’ve connected people and places along the Rutherglen to Motherwell line. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the journey
Nature at Newton Station
🌿 Case Study: Nature at Newton – Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership đź“Ť Location: Newton Station, South Lanarkshire 🛤️ Led by: Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership (CRP) 🤝 Partners: Friends of Newton Station Group, ScotRail, Herbal Homestead, local volunteers, and community groups 🎯 Focus Areas: Biodiversity, community engagement, health and wellbeing, place-making 🌱 Project Overview Nature at Newton is a growing community initiative led by Rail 74 CRP to revitalise the greenspace surrounding Newton Railway Station. This multi-stranded project brings together local people, organisations, and volunteers to turn…
Delivering Rail Safety in Lanarkshire Communities – Keeping Young People Safe
In 2024 our Community Rail Partnership decided to look to support young people and safety in and around our trainlines. We have been working with Learn Live to reach our young ones through schools and since Jan 2025 our project has reached 14 schools and we have managed to educate a total of 5,362 young people. Since 2019, Learn Live have reached over 19 million young people in 11,500 schools across the UK in partnership with the Trespass Improvement Team at Network Rail. Learn Live delivers rail safety via live…
Nature at Newton Station
We are delighted to host session and receive funding from Cross Country Trains to provide interactive and inclusive sessions at newton station in 2025. Our Friends at Newton Station have a facebook page to get information from throughout the year https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563396324475
Rail Safety Awareness Campaign in Lanarkshire Schools
The Rail Safety Project aims to enhance rail safety awareness across schools in Lanarkshire through a strategic partnership with Community Rail Partnership (CRP) members and the Learn Live team. This initiative is designed to educate students, parents, and teachers on the importance of rail safety, ultimately fostering a safer community and building future relationships with young rail users. Project Overview The project will engage 20 schools in Lanarkshire, comprising an equal mix of 10 primary and 10 secondary schools, to ensure a comprehensive reach across different age demographics.…
Rail 74 Community Rail Partnership (CRP) is thrilled to announce the installation of a transformative art project, titled ‘Hope in Hamilton’, aimed at fostering hope and resilience within the community.
The ‘Hope in Hamilton’ project has been a collaborative effort designed to unite individuals supported with their mental health and wellbeing, empowering them to create an interactive art piece for Hamilton station. Through this endeavour, voices of hope will echo throughout the station, offering solace and encouragement to those facing personal struggles.
Sounds like a Volunteer Project
Building on our links with a more sustainable travel option by rail & the environment – One of the biggest challenges facing of most third sector groups including Community Rail, Station Adopters and eco community garden groups in the area is gaining new volunteers – Many of these spaces are unmanned and our ‘Sounds like a Volunteer’ project will deliver an audio podcast series that explains Rail74 CRP and 4 community groups along the line through current volunteer voices, activities explained and how the community can get involved.…