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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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Summer Railtrails

Press release
June 2011

Combine a Ramble with a Nostalgic
Steam Train Ride with the
Kent & East Sussex Railway

On 9 and 10 July 2011 everyone can take advantage of the Kent & East Sussex Railway's special weekend summer promotion which combines a walk with a nostalgic steam train ride.

Launched at the Railway in 2008, Railtrails is a unique collection of stunning walks through secluded countryside surrounding Tenterden, Bodiam and Northiam stations.

Over the weekend, keen walkers can take advantage of a 25% discount on all single train fares along with a free copy of the glossy "Railtrails" guide book, featuring six different walks with maps. Those wishing not to walk can still purchase full price rover tickets and the usual train timetable will be operating over the weekend, details of this are on the railway's website.

Walkers can choose to start or end their walk with a train ride and most of the trails are only accessible to walkers via the railway. Choose from linear walks, which begin at one station and terminate at another, or enjoy a circular walk which begins and ends at the same station.

The trails are suitable for experienced and novice walkers and range from 2 ½ miles through to a more challenging 6 mile walk. Each guide includes a map with details of the terrain with the length of time a walk is expected to take. There are also suggestions of where to find refreshments along the route.

Free copies of the Railtrails guide book will still be available after the event but the 25% discount is for this weekend only.

Tenterden and Northiam are situated on the A28 between Ashford and Hastings and both stations have spacious car parks which are free all day for visitors. Those who would prefer to start their day from Bodiam can park at the castle for £2; it's then a 5-minute level walk to the station.

Please see the website for train times and ticket prices www.kesr.org.uk

For more details telephone the Kent & East Sussex Railway on 01580 765155

Press enquiries to: Caroline Edmunds at Pennington PR on 01892 616647

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