Steam & Beer Music Festival

Steam & Beer will be held on last weekend in June (27/28th) with live music from midday until late on the Saturday and live music until 6pm on Sunday.

This page will be updated as information becomes available.

Here’s the Survival Guide with hints and tips for this weekend’s event. Click here to download the guide.

The bands on the stage

Saturday

• 11:30am-1.30pm: The Paper Castles
• 1.45pm-2.45pm: Forever Hallie
• 3pm-5pm: The LKG Trio
• 5.15pm-7.15pm: All the Kewl Things
• 7.30pm-9.30pm: Trading Places

Sunday

• 12.30pm-2.30pm: Beer Pressure
• 3.30pm-5.30pm: Cream Crackered Band.

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.

Click here for a short video from 2024’s event

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, 9.45pm & 10.45pm.

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 – £15 includes a pint ‘glass’
Senior Citizens – £14 includes a pint ‘glass’
Children (aged 3-15) – £8
Under 3s – free
SKLR Adult Members – £6 includes a pint ‘glass’
SKLR Child Members – £6

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.

Saturday tickets

Sunday tickets

Tickets will also be available to buy in the day at the Ticket Office at Sittingbourne Viaduct station

EDWARD LLOYD BAR PRICELIST

PROVISIONAL LIST

Real Ales

£4.60 per pint/£2.30 half pint.

• Rolling – 4.1% – Moot Brewery – Stout
• Pilgrim – 3.8% – Moot Brewery – Dark
• ? – ? – Moot Brewery – Festival Special
• Rosherville Red – 4.8% – Iron Pier Brewery – Red Ale
• Joined at the Hop – 3.8% – Iron Pier Brewery – Golden
• Crispin Amber Ale – 3.4% – Madcat Brewery – Amber
• Ninth Life IPA – 5.9% – Madcat Brewery – Pale Ale
• Dune Buggy – 3.8% – NorthDown Brewery – Hazy Pale
• Merry Margate – 3.8% – NorthDown Brewery – Session
• Gold Star – 5.1% – Goachers Brewery – Golden
• House Ale – 3.8% – Goachers Brewery – Amber
• Coppernob – 3.8% – Tonbridge Brewery – Festival Special
• Easy Street Pale Ale – 3.9% – Tonbridge Brewery – Pale
• Traditional – 3.9% – Tonbridge Brewery – Session
• Berry Bitter – 4.1% – Romney Marsh Brewery – Mahogany
• Summer Pale – 4.0% – Romney Marsh Brewery – Mahogany
• Prohibition – 4.8% – Kent Brewery
• Pamona – 5.0% – Kent Brewery

Craft Ciders

£4.60 per pint/£2.30 half pint.

• Passionfruit Martini – 3.4% – Lilley’s Cider
• Tutti Fruity – 3.4% – PULP Cider
• Peach Mojito – 3.4% – Celtic Cider
• Blackcurrant – 4.0% – Dudda’s Tun Cider
• Cherry – 4.0% – Dudda’s Tun Cider
• Discovery – 5.5% – Kent Cider
• Scicillon Lemon – 4.0% – Kent Cider
• Undecider’D – 6.5% – BEARDspoon
• Ciderfect – 5.5% – BEARDspoon
• Black Dragon – 7.2% – Gwynt y Ddraig Cider
• Tropical – 4.0% – Lilley’s Cider
• Strawberry – 4.0% – Kent Cider
• Pamona – – Kent Cider

Manager Special

• Nuclear – Mango & Guava – 6.0% – Lilley’s Cider
• Sweet Apple – 5.5% – Dudda’s Tun Cider

Slushy Cider – no longer available

Also available from the Edward Lloyd Bar

Bottled cider – £3.50

Bottled lager – £2.30

Pimms

• £3.50 small
• £7.00 large

Wine costs £3.50

• House Rosé Wine
• House White Wine

Prosecco Costs £4.60

Single shot – £2.30

• Sambuca
• Jaegermeister

Spirits – £2.30 or £4.50 with a mixer

• Vodka
• Contreau
• Gin
• Whisky
• Rum
• Brandy

Soft Mixer – 1/2 pint £1.50 – 1 pint £2.30

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Pictures from previous years:

2025

2024