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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.

Cavell Van Restoration Appeal

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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.

Branch Line Weekend on the K&ESR - 20th & 21st March

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.

Grandparents Travel for Free at the Kent & East Sussex Railway

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.

Spring Walks - (25% off single fares) RailTrails

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 Great K&ESR Gala Weekend 1st - 3rd May

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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.

Visit Our Kent & East Sussex Railway Photo Albums

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.

JOB VACANCY

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.

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Event 

Title:
1940's Weekend
When:
Saturday 15 May 2010 - Sunday 16 May 2010 
Where:
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Category:
Special Events on the K&ESR

Description

1940's Weekend

Re-live the forties lifestyle with period vehicles, music, dancing and travel by steam train.
fiona harrison - 'a voice in a million'
Click on the image to the right to view our photo gallery from 2009

What's On and Where

Tenterden

Civilian Vehicles
Military Vehicles
Re-enactors
Displays

Richard Holdsworth - Author of ‘Six Spoons of Sugar'
Old Penny Machines
Custom Clothes - 40s and 50s style clothing - civilian and dance clothing
'Utility Jude - Ministry of Food' cookery advice & demonstrations
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum display
Hawker Hurricane Society display
Kitchen Memorabilia display
Cinque Ports Militaria

War-time Fire Fighting Displays
Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers
Saturday & Sunday - Fiona Harrison

Northiam

Sunday - Erith Old Timers Tea Dance

Bodiam

Cake making
Easy Company
Civilian/Military vehicles
Vintage 1940s open top bus service between Bodiam Station and Bodiam castle


Timings

Saturday

Tenterden

11.15 am Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers
11.30 am Fiona Harrison 'WRENS Show'

11.50am Fire Demonstration

12.45 pm Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers
1.30 pm  Fiona Harrison 'Stars & Stripes Show'

2.30 pm Fire Demonstation

3.30 pm Fiona Harrison 'Lindy Hop & Glamour Show'

Sunday

Tenterden

11.15 am Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers
11.30am Fiona Harrison 'ATS Show'

11.50am Fire Demonstration

1.30 pm Fiona Harrison 'USA Waves Show' 

3.10pm Cinque Ports Lindy Hoppers
3.30pm Fiona Harrison 'Lindy Hop and Glamour Show'

4pm Fire Demonstration

 

Northiam

1.30pm Erith & District Old Timers - Tea Dance (weather permitting)

All times are approximate and are subject to change.

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Normal fares apply
The Red Timetable applies both days


bodiam shield denotes an event at the castle you may enjoyAlso at Bodiam Castle

Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May

1940's Weekend - Spam, Jam and Rations!

The castle's WW2 'pillbox' was built 70 years ago as part of Britain's defence. Join the party with 1940's dancing abd recreations of wartime life.

This event is included in the normal castle admission price. Free to NT Members.

National Trust Bodiam Castle and the K&ESR........on track for a great day out!

Reduced to K&ESR ticket holders £5 adult, £2.50 child.

Venue

Venue:
Kent & East Sussex Railway

K&ESR Daily News

Saturday 20th March

Today & tomorrow is our Branch Line Weekend Event and we are running a Special Timetable, a time to enjoy the K&ESR's small locomotives.

Next Special Event

Branch Line Weekend
Saturday 20 / Sunday 21
March 2010

Monthly Competition

WIN FREE Tickets for the K&ESR

February WINNER .... 
Mrs Evans from Chatham - Congratulations!

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