News - 50th Anniversary since the line's closure

The symbolic coffin on Tenterden Platform

The funeral cortege at Bodiam Station

Images of the 50th Anniversary since the line's closure - 27th & 28th March 2004

The symbolic coffin is followed by a cortege of mourners and loaded on the train just as it was 50 years ago at High Halden Station.

A lone piper lead the procession which re-created the mood felt by the whole community when the weald said goodbye to the friendly little railway

A goods train entering Tenterden that reflects the continuation of goods services until 1961

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