G'day Ed, Glad you enjoyed the footage of the KESR a lovely steam Heritage Railway in Kent.....glad it brough back nice memories of your trip..........Regards Barry
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!
Great story Pengelly.......they sure was Happy Days......its a great little steam railway through some stunning Kent countryside......glad you enjoyed my video......I really enjoyed making it.......Regards Barry
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 1:20 storming up with five mark 1's, making a great sound.
Thanks Marion.......yes the KESR is a very nice heritage railway and it was nice to be able to film the railway and show others how nice it really is.......Regards Barry
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. Churchill and his post war cabinet decided to continue with steam construction and build the new British standards because in part they saw British rail as a sunset industry condemned by unions and road and air completion and in the eyes of former GWR director, Harold MacMillan, inherent uneconomic without flexible share market financing, as loan financing of the govt railways modernisation, just produced multiplying debt. The new British standards were intended only to fill the gaps on secondary main lines and London and midland suburban services for 6/7 years and then transfer to running on provincial and country branch lines, of the East Sussex plus type were there would virtually no ordinary freight and only 5-20 passengers a week and say 20 mail parcels or an average 1/2 passengers and1/2 parcels on 10-20 passenger in total a week. However the maintained branch lines would be generally alternative thru routes, often coastal, often servicing potentially military and RAF bases, nuclear power stations and the lines and the British standard tanks and small tenders would preserve the rural life by preserving the station and it's ships and gardens and engine servicing staff. Say a 120 branch line staff and only 20£ direct rail passenger and freight revenue a week. Parts of the withered arm, East Kent, the East Anglia system are only the most extreme example of the survivalist rail concept of. Churchill.
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My Wife and I travelled on this line to Bodiam Castle in 2013 but travelled in the old carriages, what a great reminder , Cheers From Australia
G'day Ed, Glad you enjoyed the footage of the KESR a lovely steam Heritage Railway in Kent.....glad it brough back nice memories of your trip..........Regards Barry
Excellent filming & editing of this delightful railway running through Kent & East Sussex.
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!
Great story Pengelly.......they sure was Happy Days......its a great little steam railway through some stunning Kent countryside......glad you enjoyed my video......I really enjoyed making it.......Regards Barry
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 1:20 storming up with five mark 1's, making a great sound.
Thanks Marion.......yes the KESR is a very nice heritage railway and it was nice to be able to film the railway and show others how nice it really is.......Regards Barry
Muy buena presentación del video y muy claro .
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
Totally superb and will be watched later next week!!!
I must get my 5" Terrier back together for later this year!!
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.
Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway Tenterden - Bodiam - Steam Locomotives
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Really well kept up railway 🚂👋👋👋
Lovely video, thank you.
Marvellous little line.
Thanks MKT, yes the KESR is a nice little line, running through some beautiful contryside...regards Barry
Great filming
Many Thanks Mark.....great little line, enjoyable videoing down there.......cheers Barry
What a lovely engine that Norwegian Mogul is, despite being Foreign! LOL... Just the sort of thing Colonel Stephens might have bought...
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.
Churchill and his post war cabinet decided to continue with steam construction and build the new British standards because in part they saw British rail as a sunset industry condemned by unions and road and air completion and in the eyes of former GWR director, Harold MacMillan, inherent uneconomic without flexible share market financing, as loan financing of the govt railways modernisation, just produced multiplying debt.
The new British standards were intended only to fill the gaps on secondary main lines and London and midland suburban services for 6/7 years and then transfer to running on provincial and country branch lines, of the East Sussex plus type were there would virtually no ordinary freight and only 5-20 passengers a week and say 20 mail parcels or an average 1/2 passengers and1/2 parcels on 10-20 passenger in total a week. However the maintained branch lines would be generally alternative thru routes, often coastal, often servicing potentially military and RAF bases, nuclear power stations and the lines and the British standard tanks and small tenders would preserve the rural life by preserving the station and it's ships and gardens and engine servicing staff. Say a 120 branch line staff and only 20£ direct rail passenger and freight revenue a week. Parts of the withered arm, East Kent, the East Anglia system are only the most extreme example of the survivalist rail concept of. Churchill.
very good
God I wish nlr was this good oh do i
Pity you did’t show the station names.