This video is about Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, one of Kent's top tourist attractions and one of the smallest public #railways in the world.
If you start your journey at Hythe Station, arrive at least 15 minutes before your departure time. There is a complimentary car park for the customers at the station. The exit to the trains is through the gift shop where you can find all kinds of #train sets, railway souvenirs and books.
From the platform, you can watch a steam locomotive being turned and filled with coal and water. Every locomotive has a name, this one is Southern Maid. She was built in 1926, almost 100 years ago!
The railway now operates 20-seat and 16-seat open and closed coaches. You cannot choose your seats, they are assigned automatically. There are special carriages for wheelchair users and pushchairs too. Children under 3 and dogs go on the train free! There are perspex partitions between carriage compartments for your additional safety.
The railway runs from #Hythe to Dungeness. It is a 13 and a half miles track. On weekends, there are up to 5 trains steaming between 7 stations. Usually you will stop at Dymchurch and New Romney Stations before arriving at the final destination.
In Dungeness, you will have about 40 minutes before your train goes back so you can use facilities and have a nice lunch at the End of the Line restaurant. They have kids lunch boxes too!
All ten original steam locomotives remain in service, each covering up to 10,000 miles a year. They are 1/3 full size and they were made to run safely at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour on rails only 15 inches apart! Our locomotive was changed at New Romney station for the diesel JB Snell so we said goodbye to Southern Maid.
If the weather is nice, you can leave the train at Dymchurch where the station is only a five minute walk from the long sandy beach and an amusement park. But we came back to Hythe and had a snack at Hythe Coffee Shop. You can buy special Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway fudge, jam and cake here!
Later we came back to Romney Marsh. This is a great spot to watch the steam trains passing by! We were lucky to see Samson and Green Goddess.
Hope you will have a chance to visit Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway!
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1 окт 2024
