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to keep up to date with us! team improving our local heritage? and access to occasional special members events and access to occasional special members events experience required and we provide safety training. experience required and we provide safety We welcome everyone who wants to be a member of welcome everyone who wants to be We the railway, you will receive travel benefits, newsletters the railway, Do you want to be part of a forward thinking Do you want to be part of a forward www.eastkentrailway.co.uk If so come on down to the East Railway! No previous Railway! If so come on down to the East Kent Volunteering roles available here at the East Kent Railway the East Kent at here available roles Volunteering Donate to the railway. improve the Donations are appreciated and enable us to for visitors. railway and provide more features and attractions can donate to the railway on our website, Facebook, in You one of our donation pots or via cheque posted to us.

July 25 Fish and Chip Steam Special Fish July 26 Steam Special Cream Tea August 23 and Chip Train Fish September 20 Strawberries Prosecco, & Steam April 5 June 21

April 10-13 October 25 Dads for a £1 Santa By Train August 15-16 August 29-31 December 2020 Kent’s Big Weekend Kent’s Beer & Cider Festival Easter £2 Ticket Day! Easter £2 Ticket End of Season £2 Special EKR EVENTS 2020 EVENTS EKR Summer Holiday £2 Special Summer Holiday £2 www.eastkentrailway.co.uk

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Santa Specials Party Bookings Party Catering Events Just £15 Per Person Book Online Person Just £15 Per Just £10 Per Person, Booking opens September Person, Just £10 Per Our popular catering events are back for 2020. and Strawberries and Chips and Prosecco Fish Cream Teas, on our train. and book now at: miss out Limited availability so don’t www.eastkentrailway.co.uk Christmas is a special time, so what better way to celebrate it Christmas is a special time, so what better way to celebrate Railway!than visiting Santa at the East Kent offer a unique experience in our festively decorated train We with onboard DJ. Visit Santa in the grotto at Eythorne and receive a personalised present for your child! Adults can enjoy a mince pie and warming drink in the Eythorne tea room. online on our website. can book for Santa By Train You The East Kent Railway caters for Birthday Parties, Coach Parties Coach Parties RailwayThe East Kent for Birthday Parties, caters for both old and young! and Club Outings Rides, parties that can include Train offer bespoke We Mini Beast Hunts Tours, Guided Walks, BBQ’s, Woodland and so much more. attractive rates. further details, we offer extremely Contact us for information. via our website for more Call us or email

Just £199 Per Person Just £199 Per Educational Visits Educational Driver Experiences EVER WANTED TO EVER WANTED FORM PLACEMENTS th CONTACT US FOR MORE DETAILS! CONTACT YOU CAN AT THE EKR! CAN AT YOU DRIVE A REAL TRAIN? DRIVE A REAL TRAIN? The East Kent RailwayThe East Kent offers half day driver experience’s on Diesel Shunting Locomotives! operation A one to one driving experience covering all aspects of including the opportunity to drive your family in our brakevan! A great gift or special day out. We have a fully equipped Learning Zone that can seat equipped Learning have a fully We for booking.15-20. Available many range of activities and worksheets, offer a wide We subjects including: curriculum, in a variety of linked to the • HISTORY • TEAM BUILDING • GEOGRAPHY • PROBLEM SOLVING • NATURE available also host a fully restored WW2 trench system We for school trips and visits. or to book at extremely Contact us for more information attractive rates. WORK EXPERIENCE ALSO AVAILABLE AND 6

JOURNEY BACK IN TIME Station Entry to our main site at Shepherdswell is Entry to our main site at Shepherdswell is to Sunday FREE and is open from Tuesday throughout our operating season. in Visitors can enjoy refreshments and meals our cafe and are welcome to use our picnic facilities. The site is bordered by the beautiful and a series of interesting Knees Woodland, nature walks are marked within. Eythorne Station Shepherdswell, . Registered Charity No. 1095790 Registered Dover. Shepherdswell, The station includes a car park, pretty gardens and picnic area with a play area for young children. There is a unique café, where you can sit outside in a tranquil environment and listen to the birds or sit inside a cosy wagon and have something to eat and drink. to On running days the trains will stop next where you are sitting! Once a thriving industrial line serving the Kent Coalfield, the four mile round trip Coalfield, the four mile round line serving the Kent Once a thriving industrial villages of Shepherdswell journey between the pretty takes you on an interesting that were countryside, steep chalk-lined cuttings see rolling and Eythorne. You’ll which make this a trip to and the fascinating Golgotha Tunnel excavated by hand ride in one of our newly some special events you can also be remembered. On one of our locomotives. behind restored Brake Vans Steam Engine, Diesel a Peckett operate a unique mix of heritage rolling stock, We Electric Units along with Electric & Diesel Southern Region Shunting Locomotives, St. Dunstan, can see our restoration work in progress, for example our coaches. You we are cosmetically restoring. our historic colliery steam engine which Climb aboard for a journey back in time along the for a journey back in time Climb aboard Railway. picturesque East Kent historic and Timetables & Calendar Steam Engine Services

APRIL 2020 MAY 2020 Yellow Timetable The East Kent Railway is excited and pleased to

M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Shepherdswell 11:30 13:10 14:30 announce that we will be operating a steam service on Eythorne (arr.) 11:45 13:25 14:45 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 selected dates in 2020 after the success of 2019. Eythorne (dep.) 12:05 13:45 15:10 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Shepherdswell 12:20 14:00 15:25 Please see our timetable, the Steam Engine only A fun and affordable day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 operates on Blue Marked Dates. It will operate to the Green Timetable Key out for all the family! 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 times shown on our Green Timetable Days. Shepherdswell 11:00 12:15 13:45 15:00 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Yellow Timetable Eythorne (arr.) 11:15 12:30 14:00 15:15 Eythorne (dep.) 11:45 13:00 14:30 15:45 JUNE 2020 JULY 2020 Green Timetable Model Railway Club Shepherdswell 12:00 13:15 14:45 16:00 M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Red Timetable New for 2020 you’ll find our long term resident Model 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 Red Timetable 2020 Miniature Railway Only Railway group have expanded into a second coach. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Now housed adjacent to the carpark make sure you Special Event Day Steam Engine Service 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 See website for more details. take a look at their stunning displays. OO, N and G 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Pre-booking may be required £2 Ticket Day scale layouts are in operation along with a small layout 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 Site Closed for children to drive White Box indicates no Trains Running AUGUST 2020 SEPTEMBER 2020

M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Fares The Knees Woodland 1 2 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 All Day Ticket: & Woodland Miniature Railway 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Adults £7 Children £4 How to find us The Knees Woodland is over 350 years old and contains 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Concessions £5 Under Two’s FREE an original open air water tank which was once used to 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Sandwich Family Ticket (Max 2 Adults & 2 Children) £18 Chur & Thanet refill the steam engines on the line. There are also WW2 ch Hil

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Chur Eythorne Station x Hill 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Co ch Hill Free Car Park can find. A2 BR Station 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Our Woodland Miniature Railway is a quarter mile ride 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Dover around the beautiful woodlands. Find the hidden surprises 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 BY CAR on the ride and see the wide variety of miniature Shepherdswell Station is our main site and is located close to the A2 Dover to East Kent Railway Trust locomotives that call the East Kent Railway home. A firm DECEMBER 2020 Canterbury Road, adjacent to the main line railway station. Our Eythorne Station is situated 5 minutes from A256 Dover to Sandwich Road. Both sites offer Free Station Road, Shepherdswell, Dover, Kent CT15 7PD favourite with both Adults and Children alike this is one Parking. M T W T F S S Tel: 01304 832042 attraction not to miss. The woodland miniature railway is For Sat Nav please use CT15 7PD Station Road (Shepherdswell) Tel: 01304 832042 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 or CT15 4AX Shooters Hill (Eythorne). [email protected] also open on Wednesdays in August for school holidays. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 BY RAIL www.eastkentrailway.co.uk [email protected] Shepherdswell Station on the South Eastern Railways line from Dover The Woodland Learning Zone is a unique multifunctional www.facebook.com/TheEastKentRailway 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 to Canterbury and London Victoria is adjacent to the EKR site. You can buy learning environment that will comfortably hold 15-20 discounted tickets for the EKR from a Southern or Southeastern station, just ask for www.twitter.com/EastKentRailway 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 a return to the East Kent Railway on one of our operating days. people and is available for private bookings and school www.eastkentrailway.co.uk Printed by Lanes (South East) Ltd. Tel: 01843 861314 28 29 30 31 BY BUS groups along with being open for Bug Hunts and the like Registered charity No. 1095790 Buses run on most days from Ramsgate, Dover, Canterbury to on certain operating days. Please refer to the coloured boxes for operating days. Where there is no colour on a date this Eythorne Station. indicates that the grounds and cafe will be open but no attractions or trains will be in operation. See www.stagecoachbus.com/eastkent for more details. VOLUNTEERS WELCOME! Woodland Miniature Railway