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.
A Station Catering Supervisor is 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. £16k per annum.
The original Tenterden station was on this site when the first section of Railway was opened in 1900. Had the original plans for the Railway materialised this would have been an important junction point. As it was it became the Kent and East Sussex Railways engineering centre with Workshop, Locomotive and Carriage Sheds where minor miracles were performed with primitive equipment to keep the railway running. To complete the picture a standard Stephens Station Building similar to that at Bodiam and a small goods yard for agricultural goods was provided.
Virtually the whole site was cleared in British Railways days and the only Remaining Relic of the old railway, is the concrete water tower between the platform and engine yard. The old rolling stock sheds site is under part of the large wood yard on the West of the line and the present locomotive facilities are on the site of the old goods siding on the other side of the line. The field beyond has been purchased for expansion when enough help and finance permit. Useful storage areas are scattered throughout the site with their traditional but essential clutter.
The present railway provided the modest but elegant and functional passenger shelter in the Stephens style and station office in 1980. Unusually for British practice trains pass on the loop beyond the platform by the signalbox, newly built in 198? to the traditional branch line style. These arrangements were forced on the railway by the narrowness of the site we inherited but contribute to the functional eccentricity inseparable from a Colonel Stephens railway.
