This week (8-14th January 2024)

It’s not a Work Weekend but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on!

Did you know our volunteers are feverishly working at the Railway between Work Weekends?

Typically, different teams work on regular days:

• Carriage & Wagon – Wednesdays and Saturdays
• Locomotive Engineering – Tuesdays and Saturdays
• Permanent Way (track gang) – Wednesdays and Sundays

Other teams work as necessary, usually on a Wednesday or weekend.

If you are interested in volunteering with one of the teams mentioned above please email info@sklr.net and we’ll put you in contact with that team.

Work Weekends

Next weekend is the second of our fortnightly Winter Work Weekends. We will be working from 10am until about 4pm.

If you require picking up from Sittingbourne National Rail station, Sittingbourne Viaduct station or Kemsley Paper Mill car park, please email info@sklr.net by 5pm on the Friday before to arrange a lift as there will not be a Works Train.

Full information can be found here and you are reminded that you will need to bring your own food as there are no shops close by when we are working at Kemsley Down.

Work Weekend dates are as follows:

• Saturday 20th January – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Sunday 21st January – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Saturday 3rd February – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Sunday 4th February – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Saturday 17th February – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Sunday 18th February – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Saturday 2nd March – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Sunday 3rd March – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Saturday 16th March – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed
• Sunday 17th March – Kemsley Down – to be confirmed.

Photo of the Week

Thomas O has taken a lovely photo of Barton Hall on a Works Train on 2nd January, you can see the fairly new pipe bridge which crosses the track just outside Kemsley Down station. The level crossing gates are usually secure across the Railway for such trips, leaving both our site and Kemsley Paper Mill secure.

Diesel locomotive ‘Barton Hall’ outside Kemsley Down station