Kent & East Sussex Railway – more memories from the 1990’s

As promised on Saturday, here are a few photographs taken whilst growing up alongside the Kent and East Sussex Railway. For starters, the picture below was taken in 1993 and shows A1X terrier 32650 Sutton & P class 1556 – Leaving Rolvenden (at the bottom of Tenterden Bank) Another picture of the terrier in BR colours,…

DCC Joy! Double Headers…

Today’s post looks at one of the advantages DCC control has over normal DC – double heading. Today terrier 3 Bodiam is piloting fiddle-yard shunter Austerity (J94) 1111. The duo can easily pull the four-carriage train of Bachmann Mark 1’s, a feat that the terrier would struggle to perform on its own. Setting up a…