Kent's Mainline in Miniature | Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway 2021
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2022
- Affectionately known as "Kent's Mainline in Miniature", the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway first opened to the public in 1927, with the Dungeness extention following in 1928. These days, stretching just shy of 14 miles along the Kent coast, the railway continues to be the subject of worldwide interest and admiration.
2021 proved to be a fruitful year for the railway, as among their usual array of events, the railway welcomed back its much loved German Pacific, No11 "Black Prince", to join the home-fleet following an overhaul. In typical Romney style, the spectacle didn't stop with their locomotives, as they also produced a number of special workings throughout the year; from frequent double-headed services, triple-headers, parallel running, and the mega multi-header which featured 7 locomotives.
This video follows the RH&DR over the course of their operating year, which was trucated due to the global pandemic, causing a slightly delayed start in the spring. Beginning with their Blue Timetable in spring, and eventually concluding with their 'Santa Specials' in December. As was expected while editing this together, a large section of the video is accounted for by two popular events that were held in the autumn: 'Black Prince Returns', and the 'Autumn Steam & Diesel Gala'.
Locomotives:
RH&DR Mountain Class - No6 "Samson"
RH&DR Pacific Class - No2 "Northern Chief"
RH&DR Pacific Class - No3 "Southern Maid"
RH&DR Mountain Class - No5 "Hercules"
RH&DR Krupp Pacific Class - No11 "Black Prince"
RH&DR 'North American' Pacific Class - No9 "Winston Churchill"
RH&DR Diesel Class - No12 "J.B. Snell"
RH&DR Pacific Class - No1 "Green Goddess"
RH&DR Bug Class - No4 "The Bug"
R&ER Diesel Class - "Shelagh of Eskdale"
All footage filmed on various dates during 2021. 
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All Aboard. All Aboard. Enjoy the ride.
A Really Useful Railway.
Great video. Brings back memories of holidays of the 1950"s spent in St. Mary's Bay and taking the train to Dungeness and 2009 when I took my South African wife on it. She was memorized by it.
Absolutely love this railway! Thank you for putting this together. It is amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it, Chris!
You're a really useful engine.
Basically it's like real trains passing by but smaller
Thank you very much for this fine video.
R.H.&D.R. at its best !
Cheers
Dirk
Glad you enjoyed it!
A really enjoyable watch, thank you for taking the time to edit and post. One thing I did notice was the apparent state of the track in places. I don't doubt that it has been inspected and was within a certain tolerance but the continual and occasionally pronounced undulations must add a significant percentage to their loco and rolling stock maintenance budget in terms of broken springs etc....
Ah, great comp Matthew👍🏻 Black Prince and Dungeness, a magic combo, and it wouldn't have been the same without that insane septuple header😨 Did I really see some "driving on the wrong side of the road" at the beginning??
Thanks very much! It was a real pleasure to see Prince back. That Multi-header will be the stuff of legend for a long time... well, until the next one.
Yes you really did. The down line was closed for p-way attention that day.
Wonderful video Matthew :)
Thank you