Tenterden railway extension is on the right tracks for the Kent and The line was authorised to be built with 56 pounds per yard (27.8kg/m) rails but was actually built with 60 pounds per yard (29.8kg/m) rails. At the Robertsbridge end of the line, RVR has purchased further land since 2006 and the reconnection between Rother Valley Railway and the Network Rail main line was formally opened by Sir Peter Hendy, chairman of Network Rail in December 2016. Purchased secondhand in 1901. Despite legally authorised extensions over much of the Kent Weald to Maidstone, Rye and Cranbrook, lack of capital meant that only an extension to Headcorn was to be built and opened in 1905. Trains will run into the Rother Valley Railway's own new station at Robertsbridge, the platform for which is now completed, together with a toilet block forming part of the planned new station building. Scrapped in 1948. Supporters include Tom Lewis, the owner of Morghew Park Estate in Smallhythe Road, who described the heritage K&ESR line that already crosses his land as "a responsible and co-operative neighbour". Crucially, however, the two families whose farms would be crossed by the line do not want to sell their land to RVR. A: Woolwich Arsenal Railway: 3-plank dropside open Obtained from the Woolwich Arsenal Railway in 1964. This is the reconstructed Robertsbridge Junction station, adjacent to the Network Rail station. Supplied new in 1901 for the opening of the line. There are some problems of subsidence outside Rolvenden, which often requires speed restrictions to avoid further damage to the line's foundations. K&ESR focussed efforts on the eastern end of the line. Rother Valley Railway - Wikipedia A Transport & Works Order is to be sought to enable statuary powers to cross roads, including the busy A21, and to operate the railway. In 1855, a proposed railway from Headcorn via Cranbrook to Tenterden failed to obtain its Act of Parliament. Further wagons were hired from Hurst Nelson between 1911 and 1919. Some of the original ten wagons were hired to the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway between 1927 and 1929. In 2010 a further 150yds of track bed was obtained and track was laid to the site of Junction Road Halt adjacent to the B2244 (formerly the A229). They're spending a lot of money at the Robertsbridge end, renewing bridges, building a station and other buildings. The K&ESR's own stock was generally confined to that system. Once that is achieved money is in place to start the work and if everything progresses to plan the entire 14-mile route from Tenterden to Robertsbridge could be up and running in two years time.