This week (23rd-29th June 2025)

It’s Steam & Beer this weekend

Trains will depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station regularly from 11am both days, after the 15-minute journey to Kemsley Down, you will arrive at the festival – there will be live music, the Edward Lloyd Bar in the beer tent, barbecue as well as the usual Footplate Café and shop. On Sunday, we will have additional family entertainment with Juggle It All, who you may have seen on Britain’s Got Talent.

The bands on the stage

Saturday

1115-1215: Ragged Bandits
1230-1330: Marvellous Mo and the back line ferrets
1345-1445: The Cream Crackered Band
1500-1600: Looking Back
1615-1815: Press Gang
1830-1930: The Cream Crackered Band
1945-2045: Forever Hallie
2100-finish: The LKG Trio.

Sunday

1130-1230: Gravel Road
1245-1445: Glenn Dean & The All Stars
1500-1600: Studio33
1630-1730: sorry – no band.

We will also have additional family entertainment with the Juggle it All show (previously on Britain’s Got Talent) throughout Sunday.

A massive thank you to DS Smith for all the other things they do for us, the bands, F1 Sound Co. and Monkey for providing the stage, PA & Sound Technician and all our volunteers for making this happen.

Timetables

The journey takes 15 minutes. Trains shown in bold are hauled by steam locomotive ‘Premier’, the other trains will be diesel-hauled. The festival will be held at Kemsley Down.

Saturday

Trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 11am, 11.30am, 12.15pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm & 9pm. No entrance to the festival after 9pm.

Trains depart Kemsley Down station at 11.50am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm, 8.30pm, 9.30pm & 10.30pm.

Sunday

Trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 11am, 11.30am, 12.15pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm & 5pm. No entrance to the festival after 5pm.

Trains depart Kemsley Down station at 11.50am, 12.30pm, 1.35pm, 2.35pm, 3.35pm, 4.35pm & 6pm.

Special fares apply

Adults – £13
Senior Citizens – £12
Children (aged 3-15) – £8
Under 3s – free
SKLR Adult Members – £5
SKLR Child Members – £5

A special Weekend Adult ticket is available online  from FareHarbor – click on the BOOK NOW button. Fares shown online include booking and transaction fee.

Fare includes 15 minute train ride (each way) and entry to the festival. There is no alternative entrance – everyone must arrive by train from Sittingbourne Viaduct.

Real Ales

Less than 4.4% ABV £4 per pint/£2 half pint.
4.5% ABV of more £4.50 per pint/ £2.25 per half pint.

GOODY GUM DROP 4.3% – Goody Ales
GOOD SHEPPARD 4.5% – Goody Ales
MARSH SUNSET 4.8% – Romney Marsh Brewery
A DECADE IN THE MAKING 4.5% – Romney Marsh Brewery *Limited Edition*
OLD SKOOL 4.1% – Kent Brewery
THE QUIET AMERICAN 4.2% – Kent Brewery
TRIGGER 3.6% – Musket Brewery
FLINTLOCK 4.2% – Musket Brewery
HOPPY PALE ALE 3.6% – Gadd’s Brewery
SEASIDER 4.3% – Gadd’s Brewery
1381 3.8% – Wantsum Brewery
RAVENING WOLF 5.9% – Wantsum Brewery
BURSTED SESSION 3.4% – Bexley Brewery
MAYPLACE 4.1% – Bexley Brewery
GOLDEN IPA 4.2% – Madcat
RED ALE 3.9% – Madcat

OLD CHAP 4.0% – HopFuzz Brewery

FALLOUT 3.6% – HopFuzz Brewery.

Craft Ciders

All ciders cost £4.50 per pint/£2.25 half pint

MANGO (ZERO) 0%

RASPBERRY LEMONADE 3.4%
TROPICAL 4%
PINEAPPLE & PINK GRAPEFRUIT 4%
FRUIT BAT 4%
DIRTY HARRY’s 4% (Rasp & Black)
FLASH HARRY’s 4% (Mango & Lime)
BLACK DRAGON 7.2%
CHERRY 4%
APRICOT 4%
RHUBARB 4%
BERRY 4%

A four pint pitcher is available for £15.

Also available from the Edward Lloyd Bar

Wine costs £3.00 for a 125ml measure or £3.50 for a 250ml measure

  • House Red Wine
  • House Rosé Wine
  • House White Wine

Pimms – pitcher for £15 or £4.50 per glass

Spirits – £3.00 for 25ml measure, double up for £1.00 extra

  • Vodka
  • Gin
  • Whisky
  • Rum

Mixer – £1.50

 

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 33% 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.

What’s on this month?

What’s on next month (July)?

  • Sunday 6th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
  • Sunday 13th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
  • Sunday 20th – Green timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
  • Saturday 26th – Railway 200 Wild West Weekend – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
  • Saturday 27th – Railway 200 Wild West Weekend – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
  • Wednesday 30th July – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm

Forthcoming events:

 

 

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