Kent & East Sussex Railway

England's Finest Rural Light Railway

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New Audio Visual Guide

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.

Annual CAMRA Real Ale & Cider Festival - Saturday 16 June

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.

Carriage Maintenance Building Extension Appeal - click here for more information

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.

Donate simply by Text Message!

Together with your help we can achieve our goal. Every donation helps. Simply click on the title to see how easy it is to donate by text message.

Visit Our Updated Photo Gallery

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.

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Shop Opening Times

W/C 21 May 2012

Saturday 26 9.30-5.30

Sunday 27 9.30-5.30

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Deisel Gala

Kent & East Sussex Railway Diesel Gala 26^th & 27^th June 2010.

The last weekend in June sees the return of the Diesel Gala to the K&ESR’s event calendar. Starring in this year’s event is the Great Central Railway’s class 27 D5401. As far as we know one has never travelled to the south eastern corner of Britain, and one has certainly never travelled to the K&ESR.

Joining the class 27 will be D6570 the railway’s resident class 33, DMMU, the Ford diesel, 0-4-0 Ruston Rowntree No1. Drewry shunter D2023, and a class 14.

An intensive timetable is planned for Saturday with the first service departing at 9:30am, then 10.30am then every 45 minutes. The first departure from Tenterden on Sunday is at 10.00am, and then every 30 minutes to Northiam, with connecting trains to Bodiam every 45 minutes.

Free cab rides on Rowntree No.1 at Tenterden are planned to enable visitors to see the front of the railway’s resident class 25 D7594 currently awaiting restoration.

Also on show should be the railway’s Class 08 3174 Dover Castle which is midway through a heavy overhaul as well as the GWR Railcar W20W.

A fantastic opportunity to extend your day – Enjoy a Fish & Chip supper on the move hauled by guest loco Class 27 D5401. The train departs Tenterden Station at 6:50pm.
Pre-booking is essential for this special trip. Tickets can be pre-booked through our on line shop or by calling 01580 765155.

On Sunday 27^ththere is a bus rally at Tenterden and Northiam with many examples of vintage and classic buses on display. A vintage bus service is connecting Tenterden Station with Headcorn and other buses are to lay on services connecting the railway with surrounding villages. All bus rides being free of charge. PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO PUBLIC CAR PARKING AT NORTHIAM ON SUNDAY 27th JUNE.

Train ticket prices are not increased for the event so an adult hop on, hop off “rover” ticket costs just £12.80, child £7.80, seniors £11.80 and a family ticket just £34!

For more information contact the Railway on 01580 765155 or visit www.kesr.org.uk

K&ESR Daily News

Monday 21^st 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