Rother Valley Railway

Kent & East Sussex Railway
Headcorn Junction
Headcorn National Rail
21 mi 40 ch
34.6 km
former connection
Bletchenden Road
Coldharbour Road
Frittenden Road
19 mi 0 ch
30.58 km
Frittenden Road
Biddenden
17 mi 40 ch
28.16 km
A274
North Street/
Headcorn Road
High Halden Road
High Halden Road
15 mi 60 ch
25.35 km
A262 Biddenden Road
Shoreham Lane Tunnel
(
31 yd
28 m
)
Grange Road
Tenterden St. Michael's
14 mi 40 ch
23.34 km
Headshunt
Tenterden depot and sidings
Tenterden Town Kent and East Sussex Railway
13 mi 40 ch
21.73 km
Tenterden Town
13 mi 43 ch
21.79 km
Cranbrook Road
14 mi 8 ch
22.69 km
A28 Rolvenden
12 mi 8 ch
19.47 km
Rolvenden Kent and East Sussex Railway
12 mi 6 ch
19.43 km
Rolvenden depot
Newmill Channel
10 mi 31 ch
16.72 km
Wittersham Road sidings
Wittersham Road Kent and East Sussex Railway
9 mi 31 ch
15.11 km
Wittersham Road
9 mi 25 ch
14.99 km
Hexden Channel
8 mi 39 ch
13.66 km
7 mi 62 ch
12.51 km
A28 Northiam
7 mi 4 ch
11.35 km
Northiam Kent and East Sussex Railway
7 mi 0 ch
11.27 km
Dixter Halt Kent and East Sussex Railway
5 mi 34 ch
8.73 km
Mill Ditch
Bodiam
3 mi 37 ch
5.57 km
Bodiam Kent and East Sussex Railway
3 mi 35 ch
5.53 km
Kent and East Sussex Railway
Rother Valley Railway
Junction Road Halt
2 mi 40 ch
4.02 km
Current limit of operation
B2244 Junction Road
Salehurst Halt
1 mi 20 ch
2.01 km
A21 Robertsbridge Bypass
Northbridge Street
Hodson's Mill
Current limit of
Rother Valley Railway
Flood bridges
connection to main line
Robertsbridge Junction Rother Valley Railway
0 mi
0 km
Robertsbridge National Rail
A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of both ends of the Kent and East Sussex Railway, note the Rother Valley Railway and Robertsbridge railway station.

The Rother Valley Railway (RVR) is a heritage railway project based at Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It takes its name from the original name for what later became the Kent and East Sussex Railway, running from Robertsbridge through to Headcorn in Kent, via Tenterden. The project is to replace the "missing link" between Robertsbridge, a station on the Tonbridge to Hastings mainline, and Bodiam on the Kent and East Sussex Railway, a heritage railway which operates from Bodiam to Tenterden.

Following a public inquiry in 2021, the government approved the project in May 2023 and granted the RVR's application for a Transport and Works Act Order. This came into force on 2 August, allowing the reinstatement scheme to be completed. There will be then an end-on link with the Kent and East Sussex at Bodiam enabling through-running of passenger trains between Tenterden and Robertsbridge for the first time since 1954. Heritage trains will make use of the Rother Valley Railway's own new station at Robertsbridge Junction, a short walk from the mainline station. Work is expected to begin on the final phase of reinstatement in 2024, following detailed surveys.