Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway 2024

Leader breaks through the banner at Sittingbourne Viaduct signifying our Return to Sittingbourne Viaduct and Leader's return to service (for the first time since the 1980s). We are finally Back in Town

Captain Jack Sparrow returns to the Railway on the Sunday of Steam & Beer (3rd July) - come and have your photo taken with Jack!

One of the highlights of the trip from Sittingbourne Viaduct, is crossing the 100 year old reinforced concrete Milton Regis Viaduct, which at about a kilometre long takes the first 5 minutes of your journey to cross

We will have three steam locos available for service again this year - Leader (the red one), Melior (seen here on Milton Regis Viaduct) and Superb (the big one)

Superb crosses the marshes

Melior approaches Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road bridge - an excellent vantage point to photograph trains crossing the marsh

The preserved southern half of the former 2ft 6in. gauge Bowater's Railway built to move raw materials for paper making and finished products around the mill at Sittingbourne. Trains depart from Sittingbourne Viaduct station to Kemsley Down across Milton Regis Viaduct and through Milton Creek Country Park to the working paper mill and Kemsley Down, the main site.