Kent & East Sussex Railway

England's Finest Rural Light Railway

 

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New Audio Visual Guide

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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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Nº. 171 - 12 Tonne Pipe Wagon Nº. KDB741895 PDF Print E-mail

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This wagon was built at Wolverton in 1961 to Diagram 1/462 and as part of Lot Nº. 3335. It has full wooden dropside doors and was in S&T use on the London Midland Region prior to its arrival on the K&ESR in January 1998. Patch repaired and repainted grey in July 2006

 

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

Next Special Event

A Jubilee Tea

Tuesday 5th june

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April WINNER .... 
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