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The Kent Cream Tea Train

2025 dates coming soon!

Cream Tea’s and heritage trains!
What a great way to spend the afternoon, enjoying a Cream Tea on a steam and heritage diesel hauled train for a journey through the High Weald and return. You will get to sit back and relax whilst you tuck into a sultana scone with clotted cream, jam and of course tea!

It is just £22 per adult or £17 per child to enjoy a Cream Tea experience on board our heritage trains, bookings for 2025 are now open!

Please note that smaller size parties (1 or 2 people) will be likely to share tables with other parties - we only have a limited quantity of tables for 2 people and these do sell out quickly.

What’s included in the ticket price?

  • Heritage train ride lasting around 1 hour along the Spa Valley Railway, your departure time and station are shown on your eTicket and you'll return to your start location.
  • A traditional Cream Tea served on board one of our heritage carriages.
  • A large sultana scone, clotted cream portion, jam and cup of tea.
  • At seat waiting service with drinks service allowing you to purchase more drinks on board.

We regret that it is not possible to cater for the following dietary requirements: Diabetic, Vegan, Dairy Free, Nut or any other allergies on our Cream Tea. For details please view the booking information for your chosen service.

A list of allergens is available on request.

Terms & Conditions for all dining trains can be found by clicking this link

Book tickets

Sun 19 Jan 2025
13:45 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Wed 19 Feb 2025
14:15 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 20 Feb 2025
14:15 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sat 22 Mar 2025
14:15 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 10 Apr 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 20 Apr 2025
14:00 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Mon 21 Apr 2025
14:00 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 29 May 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 22 Jun 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 06 Jul 2025
15:30 (during our 40th Anniversary of the line closure) departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sat 19 Jul 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 31 Jul 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 07 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 14 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 17 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 21 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 24 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Thu 28 Aug 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West
Sun 14 Sep 2025
15:30 departing from: Tunbridge Wells West

Booking information

Advance booking is essential to ride on our Cream Tea trains.

On the day of your visit you MUST have your eTickets available to show either in a print out or on a mobile device, both will be checked visually by a member of staff before boarding the train.

Booking with a Virgin Experiences Voucher/ Acorne PLC Voucher:

  • Select two adult tickets for the date you wish to travel
  • At checkout, enter the Voucher Number and PIN and click 'redeem voucher' - then complete the rest of the Checkout process

Please note that smaller size parties (1 or 2 people) will be likely to share tables with other parties - we only have a limited quantity of tables for 2 people and these do sell out quickly.

Note that a £10 admin fee applies to all booking alterations.

If the date shown above cannot be clicked on, then this date is sold out.

Click here to view our refund, cancellation and alterations policy

We regret that it is not possible to cater for the following dietary requirements: Diabetic, Vegan, Dairy Free, Nut or any other allergies on our Cream Tea. For details please view the booking information for your chosen service.

A list of allergens is available on request.

We regret that there can be no refund or transfer to a future date for ‘no show’ customers. The Spa Valley Railway still incurs charges for its services which must be paid to our suppliers. We recommend taking out a form of insurance to protect yourself if necessary. To re-book you will be required to pay the full fare again.

FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAN BE FOUND VIA THIS LINK