The East Kent Railway is a volunteer-run heritage line that preserves a fragment of the rail network once tied to the Kent coalfield. Short rides, historic rolling stock, and station displays make it a gentle but worthwhile excursion for railway enthusiasts and families.
It is not in Dover's cliff-and-castle core, so it works best for travellers with a car or a specific interest in transport history. As a contrast to the port and wartime sights, it shows a more local industrial layer of East Kent.