Affordable bikes for sale in Queenborough
Published
Tuesday 1 July, 2025
Updated
Tuesday 1 July, 2025
People can get a £10 bicycle while celebrating 200 years of rail history at an event in Queenborough this month.
Swale Borough Council’s Swale Cycle-re-Cycle scheme will be selling affordable bikes at the Queenborough Station’s 165th birthday celebration on 19 July.
The council’s scheme sees HMP Swaleside inmates refurbish unwanted bicycles - upskilling themselves and taking a positive step towards rehabilitation - whilst saving bikes from the tip.
Whilst also providing local residents with affordable, environmentally friendly transportation, that helps them keep active and healthy.
More than three hundred bikes have already been refurbished and sold on through local community groups for just £10 each, making the scheme self-funding and sustainable.
In addition to the sale, the station will be celebrating their birthday, alongside the 200-year anniversary of passenger trains, with a day filled with fantastic events, workshops and a community procession.
The sale will take place on the Queenborough Green - where Queenborough Castle once stood - just outside the train station, from 10am.
Cllr Dolley Wooster, chair of Swale Borough Council’s, Environment and Climate Change Committee, said:
“This event is a great opportunity to promote active travel and more environmentally friendly modes of transport like train travel.
“It is amazing to be able to support and be involved in such an important day for the Queenborough Station, and the history of rail travel in general.
“There are a limited number of bikes available at this sale day, but the scheme is fixing up bikes throughout the year, allowing us to put on more of these events so as many people as possible can get access to an affordable bike.
“Please come down to our event, pick up an affordable recycled bike and enjoy the activities at the station’s event.
“If you would like to support our scheme, please donate your bikes at our donation points.”
The council funded the initial supply of bike parts and workshop consumables, while Canterbury Bike Project trained an instructor to deliver the City & Guilds qualification at the prison.
If you have a roadworthy bike – two wheels and two brakes - you’d like to donate, drop it off at the Sheerness and Faversham household waste recycling centres’ donation points, along with new or good condition used parts.
You can find out more about the Cycle-re-Cycle scheme here.
