Have always loved the KESR. Such a varied and eclectic collection of locos and carriages, all with diverse and interesting origins and histories - I don't think there's any other preserved railway that can boast such an interesting collection. And the long 1-in-40 drag of Tenterden Bank is a great place to clock the sight and sound of an engine working hard, like the USA tank at
A nicely produced video & many thanks....As a child I travelled on the train before its closure to passenger traffic. While my parents toiled in the Guinness hop gardens I played along the line side with my older brother & younger sister. We knew the train times & would listen for the rails to warn us of the approaching train.....happiest of days!
Stayed 3 nights with a family in Robertsbridge.. next door to St Mary's church at ? Halt. On a visit to Bodiam Castle, quite by chance I framed the locomotive trailing steam...seen in one of the windows in a tower... this was 2004,, while visiting daughter working a year at Holmewood House in T Wells... Greetings in steam from Masterton NZ
And for anyone interested there is a fantastic classic car show opposite the castle in mid June and picturesque village of Ewhurst green just a few miles further on.
One of the most extraordinary lines to survive long enough to be restored from the age of steam. In its every incarnation, it survived just long enough to be rescued, my new radical events, NB WW2, rail nationalisation in 1948 and then the preservation movement, which was partly a museum love affair, partly steam punks and partly survivalist cult anticipating a new steam rail age after the political collapse of Britain in industrial and civil strife combined with war and nuclear war over oil supplies.
