Enhance your visit to the Railway and the Colonel Stephens Museum with an audiovisual Guide available to reserve online or to hire when buying tickets. £3.50 for two people. Please click on the title for more information.
This popular social event takes place between 11:00am and 10:30pm (or until the beer runs out!) and is organised with the Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. Try a diverse range of some of the finest Ale, Cider and Perry in the exclusive beer tent, or relaxing and listening to an eclectic mix of live music.
The Kent & East Sussex Railway is running an appeal to raise £200,000 to double the capacity of the main carriage maintenance building at Tenterden station. The expansion is needed to provide sufficient high quality trains to operate the current train time table which carries 90,000 passengers annually.
We have just added a collection of photos from our recent Steam Gala taken by Lewis J Brockway to our Photo Gallery. You can click on the slide title to view them.
Donate To The Carriage Maintenance Building Extension Appeal Online
Please HELP The Kent & East Sussex Railway in Tenterden to raise £200,000 to double the capacity of its main carriage maintenance building at Tenterden station.
The easiest and most convenient way to make a donatation of your choosing to the Carriage & Wagon Dept. Building Extension Fund is by text message. Simply text the amount you would like to donate together with the unique code KESR02 to 70070 thus:
e.g. Text message KESR02 [space] £10 to 70070. There's also the opportunity to Gift Aid your donation, please consider this if you are a UK tax payer. Thank You.
Are you a UK taxpayer?
If so, you can use Gift Aid to make your donations go further by completing this declaration. If you Gift Aid your donation, the Kent & East Sussex Railway will receive an additional 25p from the government for every pound you give.
Please complete the form below, all our online donations are handled by Paypal. We accept Visa, Visa Electron, Mastercard, Switch, Delta, Solo and Maestro. Please select a donation amount, if you wish to donate a different amount, please enter the figure in the £ box.
To qualify for Gift Aid, you must pay an amount of UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that the charity reclaims on your donations in the appropriate tax year (currently 25p for each £1 given). Tax year is 6 April one year to 5 April the next.
If you do not qualify for Gift Aid you can still use this form to donate to the appeal, just select the '' option where applicable. Thank you.
Please note: You do not need a Paypal account to donate online. Simply choose the "Don't have a Paypal account? Click here" option on the payment page. You will then be able to donate using your debit or credit card.
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K&ESR Daily News
Monday 21st May
No service today, next trains run this weekend with our Green Service, 3 steam and 2 heritage diesel departures. First train departs from Tenterden at 10.40