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Eastwell Meadows, Tenterden
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 13 Feb 2016
0.02 miles
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Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
K&ESR, Tenterden Town Station, K&ESR Engine No. 46, BR 03 class Diesel Mechanical Locomotive shunting at the station during "Day out with Thomas"-weekend.
The BR 03 class Diesel Mechanical 204hp 0-6-0 was built at Swindon Works in 1958 as D2023. Withdrawn in 1971 and sold to Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 23 Jul 2011
0.04 miles
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Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
K&ESR, Tenterden Town Station, K&ESR Engine No. 46, BR 03 class Diesel Mechanical Locomotive shunting at the station during "Day out with Thomas"-weekend.
The BR 03 class Diesel Mechanical 204hp 0-6-0 was built at Swindon Works in 1958 as D2023. Withdrawn in 1971 and sold to Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 23 Jul 2011
0.04 miles
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Looking up the line from Tenterden Town station
The original line of what is now the Kent & East Sussex Railway was opened by the Rother Valley Railway between Rolvenden and Robertsbridge in 1900. At that time Rolvenden station was named Tenterden until the station up the hill was opened. The railway extended to Tenterden Town in 1903 and on to Headcorn in 1905, naming itself the Kent & East Sussex Railway in the process. The section from Tenterden Town to Headcorn closed in 1954 and Tenterden itself closed with the line in 1961.
Tenterdown Town station was reopened by the Kent & East Sussex Railway on 3rd February 1974 but the line only went as far as Rolvenden. The extension to Wittersham Road came in 1977, to Northiam in 1990 and to Bodiam in 2000. The signal box came from Chilham near Canterbury. On the original line, signal boxes were seen as an unnecessary luxury but the present line is signalled as a Southern Railway branch line which it never was.
More information about the railway can be found at http://www.kesr.org.uk/
This view is from the end of the platform at Tenterden Town in the direction that the line would have originally run to Headcorn. The tracks end just around the bend in the distance.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 3 Jan 2022
0.06 miles
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Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Station
K&ESR, Tenterden Town Station, K&ESR No. 100 London Underground Coach.
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: 23 Jul 2011
0.06 miles
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Tenterden Town station yard
On the Kent and East Sussex Railway, looking from the station platform towards Headcorn, but these days the track only extends far enough to form a head shunt for the sidings here.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 5 Apr 2007
0.06 miles
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The end of the line
The head-shunt at Tenterden Town station. Kent and East Sussex Railway. In the early days of the line, it extended from here to Headcorn on the South Eastern main line.
Image: © John Lucas
Taken: 14 Oct 2023
0.06 miles
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Wrights Close, Tenterden
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 13 Feb 2016
0.06 miles
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Converging lines, north end, Tenterden Station
The northern terminus of the Kent & East Sussex railway.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 9 Jul 2013
0.07 miles
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Tenterden - 1993
Tenterden, Kent, Kent & East Sussex Railway, Tenterden Town Railway Station, K&ESR Locomotive No. 8 'Knowle', LB&SCR No. 32650, AIX-Class, Brighton Terriers
Image: © Helmut Zozmann
Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles