SKLR on Tour

As Sittingbourne's Steam Railway is not operating its usual services this year for a number of reasons (See here) so we are delighted to tell you that we will be taking the opportunity to visit the Preston Steam Rally with our locomotive “Melior” and one of our newly refurbished coaches. We will be running trains at this event over a length of track specially installed by our volunteers.

The Rally takes place at Preston next Wingham, near Canterbury, Kent on 27 th & 28 th June 2009. It features traction engines, steam fairground rides and vintage vehicles as well as your favourite railway. Gates open at 10am both days.

Please come and support us and take this opportunity for your 2009 ride on one of our trains.

We hope to be back at Sittingbourne next year.

We still have some way to go to safeguard the whole of the line and our SOS Campaign will continue. Donations to our Camapign can be made by visiting  www.justgiving.com/sklr or by sending a cheque to SOS Campaign, P.O.Box 300, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 2DZ. Swale Borough Council has recently started consultation on the draft version of its Masterplan for Sittingbourne Town Centre and it is important that all views supporting the retention of the viaduct and the Light Railway terminus at Sittingbourne are recorded. You can view and comment on the draft masterplan at www.swale.gov.uk and click on Masterplan.

Updated 18 June 2009