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Platform 9 and 4/4: A New Railway Appreciation Thread

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  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Indeed - even the O1s weren't allowed past Rolvenden...
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    A theme that carried on into preservation. The Northiam extension was originally relaid with 75lb rail from a Kent coal mine and there was only one diesel shunter that could use it. I suspect that was to allow works trains past Wittersham Road, as I recall we met one and hitched a lift.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    AIUI, it wasn't so much the track that was flimsy, but the bridges - at least, on the original section of the line (Robertsbridge - Rolvenden).

    Mr Austen, BR, and the Preservation Society, all made improvements. Perhaps one day we shall see a Bulleid Pacific steaming up Tenterden bank...
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    The Civil Engineer’s Department is the enemy of every Locomotive Designer ever born. Except those rare ones who have worked in both departments(I believe there have been three in all human history).
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