This week (12-18th May 2025)

Sunday is our Railway 200 Behind the Scenes Day event

Come along for the ride to Kemsley Down, where you can meet some of our volunteers who can tell you how we keep the Railway running and give you a guided tour of the engine shed.

Trains will be departing Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm, returning at 1.35pm, 2.35pm, 3.35pm and 4.45pm from Kemsley Down. The journey takes 15 minutes, you may return on any train.

We are running every Sunday and Bank Holiday until the end of September.

Return (there-and-back) fares are:

• £9 for adults
• £4.50 for children (3-15)
• Infants aged under 3 travel free
• £8 for senior citizens
• £24 for families (2 adults and 4 children)
• Other fares available

Tickets can be purchased in advance from FareHarbor, our new online ticket retailers, click on the BOOK NOW at the bottom right of the page whenever you are growing our website or click here.

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We’re fundraising to buy a train – yes a locomotive and three wagons – to provide a safer and more manageable track maintenance train, as well as an instantly available locomotive which will make shunting at Kemsley Down so much easier.

Click here or on the picture above to go to our Just Giving page, we’re trying to raise £15,000 to buy the train, move it to Kemsley Down, buy a battery charger for the loco and make improvements to the wagons so they drop ballast directly onto the track.

A massive thank you to the people who donated already – you’ve raised over 10% of the target amount. Most of our track gang volunteers have retired from full time work so anything that makes their life easier and safer has got to be a good thing.

Here’s how they currently do it – shovelling ballast from bags on a wagon to wheelbarrows and then wheeled to site.

The new wagons will drop the stone directly onto the trackbed.

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What’s on this month?

• Sunday 18th – Railway 200 Behind the Scenes Day – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Sunday 25th – Yellow timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Monday 26th – Yellow timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Wednesday 28th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Saturday 31st – Pirate Weekend – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm

What’s on next month (June)?

• Sunday 1st – Pirate Weekend – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Sunday 8th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Sunday 15th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Sunday 22nd – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
• Saturday 28th – Railway 200 Steam & Beer Music Festival – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station from 11am until 10pm
• Saturday 29th – Railway 200 Steam & Beer Music Festival – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station from 11am until 5pm

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Forthcoming events:

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