Events

Join us for a delightful walk starting at Harwich Town Station at 10.22 for a historic walk, visit and talk at the Electric Palace Cinema.
FREE

Garden entrance booklets can be brought from the station on the day which entitles you to visit all the gardens and includes a map of the gardens

Join local folk group “The Silburys” with our very own Scott Dolling for an evening of musical entertainment on the train.

Bures Dragon Walk, meet at 10.30am at Bures Station for a free guided walk up to see the fantastic Dragon laid out on the hillside

Meet at White Notley station at 10.30am.

Join us for a picturesque walk through the beautiful Dedham Vale. Meet at Manningtree station at 10.30, bring your train ticket for a
free coffee. A round trip walk to Flatford mill with a talk about John Constable at Willie Lotts cottage.

Catch the 19.01 train from Marks Tey for 2 x round trips along the Gainsborough line with sounds of the 80's from our resident DJ.

Adult Tickets £5

To celebrate 200 years of the railway and launch the new heritage centre, join us at Chappel & Wakes Colne station for the rail museum open day.

ADULTS ONLY £5

Carradines cockney singalong from Colchester North Station to Walton on the Naze and back singing some of the old time music hall greats around the piano on a train. The evening lasts for around 2hrs.

To celebrate the grand opening of Braintree Museum’s dinosaur exhibition “Extinction” with its animatronic dinosaur, we are organising a special dinosaur themed train, complete with goody bags.