A Great Value Day Out

Our all day hop-on, hop-off Rover fares allow unlimited travel along the full 10 ½ miles (16.8 km) of the railway. You can stop off to explore at any station - to visit Bodiam Castle for example, or to look over the loco yard at Rolvenden.

If you plan to make a day of it why not call 01580 765155 to book one of our terrific picnic hampers.

We like our trains to depart on time and our visitors can help by arriving early to purchase tickets. It can help that just one person queues to puchase tickets and other family members make their way to find seats.

Contact Details

Address: Tenterden Town Station
Station Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HE, UK
Telephone: 01580 765155
Fax: 01580 765654
24hr talking timetable: 01580 762943

Fares for 2012

Day Rover fares for 2012 are Adult £15.00, Senior Citizen £14.00, Child (3 - 15 years inc.) £10.00 and Family (2 adults + up to 3 children or 1 adult and up to 4 children) £42.00. Timetable and Fares

Car Park

Free parking is available at Tenterden (260 spaces) and Northiam. Visitors who would like to start their journey from Bodiam may park at the National Trust's Bodiam Castle car park for £2 per day. NT Members can park free.

How to get to The Kent & East Sussex Railway

View a Google Map and directions to Tenterden Town Station.

Live Traffic Information direct from the Highways Agency for SE England is available here

Facilities for Visitors with Disabilities
Please note that 'Petros', our specially designed coach to convey wheelchair users is due to return to traffic in the first half of 2012 following an extensive restoration. In the meanwhile provison has been made to still convey wheelchair users. If you have any concerns whatsoever please call us prior to your visit. Our staff will do all they can to help.

All our facilities have been carefully designed with disabled and elderly passengers in mind. There are parking spaces for the disabled next to the platforms at Tenterden Town and Northiam Stations and toilets for the disabled at Tenterden, Northiam and Bodiam.  Some of our other carriages have ramped access too. There is full wheelchair access to the shop and refreshment rooms at Tenterden Town, and the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum has level access with 42" aisles. The Tenterden ticket office is fitted with an induction loop.
 The timetable is available in a Large Print version upon request in person, by telephone [01580 765155] or by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

NEW for 2012 - A 'text-talk' facility is available via every page of our website.

Site Plan

Download a large aerial view of Tenterden Town Station - JPEG image

Restaurant

Catering is available in the Station Refreshment Rooms at Tenterden. This building was formerly the Maidstone & District Motor Services waiting room at Palace Avenue, Maidstone - built in 1922 as Britain's first bus station. Today you can enjoy anything from an ice cream to a cooked lunch with desert seated inside the quaint 36-seater restaurant or al fresco in the dappled shade beneath surrounding trees. The children's play area is adjacent to the Refreshment Rooms and offers shaded picnic tables.

Souvenir & Gift Shop

You can purchase a selection of items, Special Event tickets (i.e. Santa Specials), Driver Experience Days and become a member of the railway from our online store, which is secured with a Thawte SSL certificate, for your peace of mind. All of these plus many other items can also be purchased from our Souvenir and Gift Shop at Tenterden which is open every day the trains are running.

Colonel Stephens Railway Museum

Colonel Holman Fred Stephens was an English eccentric, a brilliant railway engineer, and the man who built and ran the Kent & East Sussex Railway (and amazingly 16 other light railways!).

His legacy is commemorated in this intriguing award-winning museum next to Tenterden Town Station. Open every afternoon when trains are running. Entry £1.50 adult, 50p child.

Visit the Museum website

Dogs

Dogs are welcome to travel with their owners on normal operating days providing they are well behaved and kept under close control while remaining on a lead. Under no circunstances should they be allowed on the upholstery. The fare for a dog is £3.

In accordance with our conditions of carriage dogs are not permitted to travel during major special events. For example, the annual Gala, Thomas, Santa Specials, Halloween, 1940's. On child oriented event days please note that dogs are NOT PERMITTED on stations, assistance dogs excepted. If in doubt please ask a member of staff for advice.

Read our Conditions of carriage

Multi-Lingual Leaflet →

↓↓ Visitor information in English, French, Dutch and German is available to download in PDF format using the links below

↓↓ Les renseignements sur les visiteurs en anglais, français, néerlandais et allemand est disponible pour téléchargement en format PDF à l'aide des liens ci-dessous

↓↓ Bezoeker informatie in het Engels, Frans, Nederlands en Duits beschikbaar is voor downloaden in PDF-formaat met behulp van de onderstaande links

↓↓ Besucher-Infos in Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Niederländisch und Deutsch zur Verfügung steht zum Download im PDF-Format über die Links unten

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