Casual Catering Assistants required. If you have a proven track record of excellent customer service, enjoy cooking & have a flexible attitude to working patterns we would like to hear from you! Call the Catering Manager for more details or for an application form on 01580 765155.
We need to raise £35,000 to restore the van in time for the National Service of Remembrance on 11 November 2010. The ‘Cavell Van’, built in 1919, is important in the railway preservation movement for being the prototype of a class of vans used for mail and luggage on express passenger trains from the 1920s. Please click on the title for more information.
On the 20th and 21st March you can enjoy the K&ESR's small locomotives over this weekend. The Special Timetable for Saturday & Sunday can be downloaded by clicking on the title above.
Children can treat their grandparent's to a nostalgic day out for FREE on the Kent & East Sussex Railway during a special grandparents' weekend on 17 and 18 April; when every child rover ticket purchased (costing £7.80) entitles a grandparent to travel for free. Please click on the title for more information.
Combine a ramble with a nostalgic steam train ride with the Kent & East Sussex Railway. On 24 and 25 April everyone can take advantage of the Kent & East Sussex Railway's special weekend spring promotion which combines a walk with a nostalgic steam train ride. Please click on the title for more information.
The K&ESR May Gala is now an established "must visit" for railway enthusiasts from all over the country. In addition to seeing K&ESR's own locomotive "Charwelton" in traffic following its recent overhaul, K&ESR is pleased to announce that Llangollen Railway's BR Standard Class 4 locomotive – no. 80072 will be visiting.
Our Photo Album contains 100's of new images taken by Lewis Brockway in several new collections, Railway Experiences, CAMRA Beer Festival, 1940's Weekend and our Day Out with Thomas Event. We also have a Volunteers Photo Album available for viewing from the link on the main menu.
British Railways did not clear this site probably because there were still hop-pickers' and other special passenger trains coming to this station until nearly the line's closure. Fortunately Northiam and Bodiam are therefore still blessed with their original and characteristic Stephens station Buildings.
A second station Building matching the style of the original was built on the platform to house essential modern toilets during the 10 years whilst the station was the end of the line. The station building itself looks very much as it always did with a pot-bellied stove to keep passengers warm but the goods office has been altered a very useful buffet for passengers joining from the adjacent main A28 road or even passing by. With extension to Bodiam the buildings still serve park and ride passengers for Bodiam and Tenterden and the old down side platform was also brought back into use after a generation of disuse.
Also at Northiam and tucked away across the present car park, formerly the goods yard are two original Station Bungalows. These characteristic buildings were used for staff accomodation and are now used as a work base for our building heritage maintainance volunteers ( known as the 'Tuesday Group')
The signal box is a modern building but characteristic of a rural branch line in steam days.
British Railways did not clear this site probably because there were still hop-pickers' and other special passenger trains coming to this station until nearly the line's closure. Fortunately Northiam and Bodiam are therefore still blessed with their original and characteristic Stephens station Buildings.
Also at Northiam and tucked away across the present car park, formerly the goods yard are two original Station Bungalows. These characteristic buildings were used for staff accomodation and are now used as a work base for our building heritage maintainance volunteers ( known as the 'Tuesday Group')