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Jinty 47493.
The Spa Valley Railway, shown with other railway lines in Kent and East Sussex.

The Spa Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway that runs between Tunbridge Wells, High Rocks, Groombridge, and Birchden crossing the Kent and East Sussex border, a distance of 4 miles, along the former Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line / Cuckoo Line. Its headquarters is at Tunbridge Wells West railway station. It is intended to extend the line to Eridge railway station to link with the Oxted Line.

The railway holds a number of special event days, including a Day out with Thomas (the tank engine) on 4 weekends of the year, Santa Specials, and both steam and heritage diesel weekends.

Locomotives

Steam Locomotives

    • LB&SCR 0-6-0T Class A1X "Terrier" no. 50 Whitechapel
    • LMS 0-6-0T Class 3F "Jinty" no. 47493
    • London North Eastern Railway (LNER) 0-6-0ST J94 no. 68077 – under restoration
    • Peckett 0-6-0ST works no. 1636 “Fonmon”
    • Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST works no. 2315 “Lady Ingrid”
    • Fablok, Chrzanow (Poland) TKh 0-6-0T works no. 3135 “Spartan” – under restoration
    • Fablok, Chrzanow (Poland) TKh 0-6-0T works no. 2944 “Hotspur” – awaiting restoration
    • Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne (RSH) 0-6-0T works no. 7846 “North Downs” – under restoration
    • Bagnall works 0-6-0ST No. 2193 “Topham” – awaiting restoration
    • Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne (RSH) 'Ugly' 0-6-0ST Works No. 7668 “Samson” – under restoration

Diesel Locomotives

Diesel Multiple Units

Electrical Multiple Units

The future

In the near term the Spa Valley railway is hoping to extend services to Eridge mainline station, where there is a disused bay platform.

In the longer term, nearby closed lines to East Grinstead (Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line) and Eastbourne (Cuckoo Line) offer scope for expansion.