Festival events organiser Jeannette Rainbow from the Wauchope Historical Society is thrilled with the response she has received to the events scheduled for Wauchope.

"I am really happy with the numbers we have for the Wauchope to Wingham Rail Escape on Monday April 14,"she said.

"We still have a few vacancies for the Upper Hastings Treasure Coach tour on Thursday April 17 and it looks like the Hastings Cruise on Wednesday April 23 will be full too".

The offical opening will be held in Kendall on Saturday and the festival will continue throughout the region until Sunday April 27.

The Poets' Breakfast will be at Kendall Services and Citizens Club at 8.30am, followed by the commissioning of the bullock sculpture in the Kendall Town Green and the celebration of the first passenger train to arrive at Kendall Station in April 1914.

At noon in the club auditorium Mayor Peter Besseling will officially launch Heritage Week in the Port Macquarie-Hastings area.

At 12.20pm official guests will travel by vintage cars to Kendall Town Green for the commissioning of the sculpture. There the Port Macquarie-Hastings Pipe and Drum band will pipe the guests from their cars for the commissioning of the Bullock silhouettes public art.

Member for Lyne David Gillespie will welcome the assembly, followed by the presentation of memoirs of two local bullock drivers.

At 12.45pm the band will travel to Kendall Station for the ceremony to celebrate the centenary of the arrival of the first passenger train in Kendall.

The Kendall Men's Shed team will be cooking a barbecue lunch on the Kendall Town Green from 12 noon and selling a range of food and refreshments.

For all enquiries on events in Wauchope, please call Jeannette Rainbow on 6585 1895 or 0424 226 258.

Meanwhile a collection of heritage groups will be staging displays at Kendall Services and Citizens Club in Graham Street.