This week (7-13th July 2025)

Trains are running on Sunday afternoon

Trains will be running on Sunday, departing Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm.

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

The next big event is the Railway 200 Wild West Weekend on 26 & 27th July, when there will be a shoot-out on every train!

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 button on the website (www.sklr.net).

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.

We have actually bought the train as the offer was time-bound as it need to be removed from the storage site. This means we have used other funds to pay for it so the fundraising will continue to reduce the impact on other planned purchases this year (coal etc.). A massive thank you to the people who have donated already – we’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 once they have been modified for the task.

Steam & Beer – thank you!

Thank you to everyone who made the Railway 200 Steam & Beer Music Festival a great success. In particular our hard-working volunteers who kept the trains running for the event and especially Ashley, Tim, Dave and Dan who put so much effort into organising and staffing the event.

If anyone has any feedback about the event, favourite bands/beers/ciders or has published videos on YouTube, we’d be grateful if we could link to them from our Steam & Beer page so future passengers can get an idea of what’s in store during a Steam & Beer event, please email us at info@sklr.net as we now begin the task of organising Steam & Beer 2026!

What’s on this month?

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, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm (11am train only bookable online, the return train will be at 12.35pm from Kemsley Down)
Saturday 27th – Railway 200 Wild West Weekend – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm (11am train only bookable online, the return train will be at 12.35pm from Kemsley Down)
Wednesday 30th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm

What’s on next month (August)?

Sunday 3rd – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Wednesday 6th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Sunday 10th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Wednesday 13th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Sunday 17th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Wednesday 20th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Sunday 24th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Monday 25th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Wednesday276th – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Sunday 31st – Yellow Timetable – trains depart Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm