Reflections on a Steam Train. Cranbrook Level Crossing, Tenterden, Kent, on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
Commentary.
Cranbrook Crossing near Tenterden in Kent.
Started at Bodiam, via Northiam, it was a wonderful, compelling ride through the East Sussex and Kent countryside.
Volunteers restored the line, engines and traditional carriages, with their distinctive green livery.
The chugging of the engine, the clackety-clack of the track,
1930-1950’s level crossings and signal boxes, and the smell of the coal brought back a world from childhood.
Being born in the mid-1950’s a train, for me, will always be steam, never diesel, never electric.
The living, breathing charisma and working parts of a steam engine is still magic, pure magic.
Reflections on a Steam Train. Cranbrook Level Crossing, Tenterden, Kent, on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
Commentary.
Cranbrook Crossing near Tenterden in Kent.
Started at Bodiam, via Northiam, it was a wonderful, compelling ride through the East Sussex and Kent countryside.
Volunteers restored the line, engines and traditional carriages, with their distinctive green livery.
The chugging of the engine, the clackety-clack of the track,
1930-1950’s level crossings and signal boxes, and the smell of the coal brought back a world from childhood.
Being born in the mid-1950’s a train, for me, will always be steam, never diesel, never electric.
The living, breathing charisma and working parts of a steam engine is still magic, pure magic.