The glorious sights, sounds and smells of steam
Saturday and Sunday saw the first public team-hauled passenger service to serve the station since 1961 and an appearance by one of the locomotives that worked the very last train.
141 year-old locomotive No.32670, along with three Victorian carriages, worked a special shuttle services from a brand new RVR platform along around half-a-mile of newly re-laid line from Robertsbridge Station to Northbridge Street.
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Hide AdUltimately the RVR will reinstate a total of three miles of line and link to the Kent & East Sussex Railway at Bodiam.
Passengers will then be able to travel from Tenterden to Robertsbridge by train.
In addition to the shuttles at Robertsbridge, K&ESR operated trains over the 10-and-a-half miles between Tenterden and Bodiam over the weekend.