Kent & East Sussex Rly - Branch Line Weekend 20th & 21st March

Kent & East Sussex Railway
Branch Line Weekend
20th and 21st March 2010

3 locomotives in service that operated on the line prior to preservation, Terriers No 3 Bodiam, 32678 and P Class 753

The return to service after overhaul of No 14 Charwelton

BR era demonstration freight

Pre Grouping era demonstration freight

Engine swaps at Bodiam

Click below to download the Branch Line Weekend timetable
http://kesr-operating.org.uk/Branchline 2010 public timetable.pdf

 

Sounds great, I will be there Saturday. Does anyone know which way which engines are facing? Thanks.

 

No 3 Bodiam and P Class 753 are facing towards Bodiam, 32678 and 14 Charwelton are facing Tenterden. No 3 Bodiam will get turned back the other way at some point so make the most of the chance to photograph her this way round! Th 03 faces towards Bodiam. This weekend should be a really good re-creation of the K&ESR as it would have been before preservation, we're very lucky to have so many of the original locos preserved on the line so we can do this. It's not often we get the chance to run them all on the same day so make the most of it!

 

I shall! Thanks for the info, I like to try and travel behind the locos when they run backwards and be somewhere to take photos of them when they run forwards! Lets hope for nice weather now!

 

Very grey and mildly moist down in Kent today. Attached a couple of shots from the Kentish gloom.

 

That's a very good pic of Henry driving the terrier. I dare say he'd like a copy!!!!

 

The driver of 32678 crops up in most of my pictures as I seemed to only really catch 32678 today. Had a good day despite the weather, wind in particular making videos hard work! 6 pictures are on flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alts1985/

and a collection on fotopic...

http://ashleysmith355.fotopic.net/c1827552.html

 

My HD video from the Saturday of the Gala is now on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-C5DCE62ZU

 

That's a nice bit of film, thanks for sharing it. I hope you're coming to our gala next week to film that too!

 

Your welcome! I have only just started taking videos, I am more a photo person really! I am, I will be there next Sunday with camera and camcorder, looking forward to it, looks a great gala.