This week (27th May – 1st June 2025)

Diesel Wednesday & Sheppey Pirates take over this weekend!

As it’s the half-term holiday, trains will be running on Wednesday, departing Sittingbourne Viaduct station at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm – we are all volunteers and sadly, we are unable to provide a steam crew so trains will be diesel hauled on Wednesday 28th May.

Sheppey Pirates will be taking over the Railway this weekend – 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 on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. The journey takes 15 minutes, you may return on any train. There will be shoot-outs and cannons!

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.

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 11% 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?

  • 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)?

Forthcoming events:

 

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