The heart of the
Kent & East Sussex Railway is Tenterden Town containing most of the passenger facilities, the Carriage
workshop and the Colonel Stephens Museum. The station site still shows many
signs of its former status as a through station and main station of the original
railway.
Years
of neglect and the lightly engineered character of the railway meant that the
task of restoration had to be tackled in stages. The first 2 miles at Tenterden
were opened in 1974. After a major renewal of a river bridge enabled an
extension to Wittersham Road in 1977. Northiam was reached in 1990 and Bodiam by
2000, one hundred years after it first opened.
All
five of the current stations, Tenterden Town, Rolvenden, Wittersham Road,
Northiam and
Bodiam have an appeal of their own reflecting
the
classic light railway architecture as realised by Colonel
Stephens.
