Tenterden tourist video
Tenterden tourist video, Tenterden and the surrounding area, video by Dave Hutton, 2014 Tenterden - The Jewel of the Weald
Tenterden Tourist Video - Tenterden High Street, Folk Festival, Chapel Down, Rare Breeds, Tentertainment, Golf Club, Christmas Market, Gibbet Oak, Tenterden Museum
Copyright: Dave Hutton
Come and Visit Tenterden #tenterden
Come and Visit Tenterden #tenterden Tenterden has so much to offer, cafes, pubs & restaurants galore, beautiful old buildings, fabulous churches, museums, independent shops, lovely High Street, steam trains, brewery tours, play park for the kids, a great day out
RD834. GAZELLE in the Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden on the Kent & East Sussex Railway.
This interesting and unique locomotive was built in 1893 by Alfred Dodman & Co of Kings Lynn to the order of Norfolk businessman William Burkett. Gazelle was originally a 2-2-2WT and in that form was used by its private owner for quite lengthy excursions on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway as well as on the Great Eastern Railway.
The locomotive was purchased by Colonel Stephens in February 1911 via T.W. Ward for use as an inspection unit on the soon to be reopened Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway, where it became S&MR No. 1. It was rebuilt, probably locally, as a 0-4-2WT and used in company with an ex-LCC horse tram, to provide a passenger service on the the lightly populated Criggion branch . Locomotive and tram were withdrawn in the late 1920s or early 1930s but returned to inspection duties in 1937 when Gazelle assuming her present appearance although then painted olive green.
The S&MR was taken over by Army 1941 and Gazelle was used again as an inspection unit until her second withdrawal in about 1943 when the army kept her as a showpiece. With nationalisation of the railways the ownership of Gazelle was nominally transferred to British Railways Western Region but in May 1950, she was placed on loan to the War Department and moved to the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire for display on a plinth. In 1970 the locomotive was placed in the care of the National Railway Museum and, after a short period at York, was loaned to Museum of Army Transport at Beverley. When this closed in 1997, the locomotive was placed on loan with the Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden where it was given the nominal honour of No. 1 in the K&ESR fleet. What is thought to be the world's smallest standard gauge locomotive is unlikely to ever run again. It is underwent cosmetic restoration for a short planned trip to the National Railway Museum at York for Railfest 2012 but returned to the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum were it remains on display.
TECHNICAL DATA
Weight 5 tons 10 cwt
Cylinders (2) 4 in. dia x 9 in. stroke
Wheels 2 feet 3 ins. dia
RD834. GAZELLE in the Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden on the Kent & East Sussex Railway.
This interesting and unique locomotive was built in 1893 by Alfred Dodman & Co of Kings Lynn to the order of Norfolk businessman William Burkett. Gazelle was originally a 2-2-2WT and in that form was used by its private owner for quite lengthy excursions on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway as well as on the Great Eastern Railway.
The locomotive was purchased by Colonel Stephens in February 1911 via T.W. Ward for use as an inspection unit on the soon to be reopened Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway, where it became S&MR No. 1. It was rebuilt, probably locally, as a 0-4-2WT and used in company with an ex-LCC horse tram, to provide a passenger service on the the lightly populated Criggion branch . Locomotive and tram were withdrawn in the late 1920s or early 1930s but returned to inspection duties in 1937 when Gazelle assuming her present appearance although then painted olive green.
The S&MR was taken over by Army 1941 and Gazelle was used again as an inspection unit until her second withdrawal in about 1943 when the army kept her as a showpiece. With nationalisation of the railways the ownership of Gazelle was nominally transferred to British Railways Western Region but in May 1950, she was placed on loan to the War Department and moved to the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire for display on a plinth. In 1970 the locomotive was placed in the care of the National Railway Museum and, after a short period at York, was loaned to Museum of Army Transport at Beverley. When this closed in 1997, the locomotive was placed on loan with the Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden where it was given the nominal honour of No. 1 in the K&ESR fleet. What is thought to be the world's smallest standard gauge locomotive is unlikely to ever run again. It is underwent cosmetic restoration for a short planned trip to the National Railway Museum at York for Railfest 2012 but returned to the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum were it remains on display.
TECHNICAL DATA
Weight 5 tons 10 cwt
Cylinders (2) 4 in. dia x 9 in. stroke
Wheels 2 feet 3 ins. dia
Tenterden County Kent England
Tenterden County Kent England
Tenterden
A ride through Tenterden in Kent on a Yamaha XT660R.
Kent and East Sussex Railway 08 888 at Tenterden Town
he British Rail (BR) Class 08 is a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotive. The pioneer locomotive, number 13000, was built in 1952 although it did not enter service until 1953. Production continued until 1962; 996 locomotives were produced, making it the most numerous of all British locomotive classes.
As the standard BR general-purpose diesel shunter, almost any duty requiring shunting would involve a Class 08. The class became a familiar sight at many major stations and freight yards. Since their introduction, though, the nature of rail traffic in Britain has changed considerably. Freight trains are now mostly fixed rakes of wagons, and passenger trains are mostly multiple units, neither requiring the attention of a shunting locomotive. Consequently, a large proportion of the class has been withdrawn from mainline use and stored, scrapped, exported or sold to industrial or heritage railways.
As of 2011, around 100 locomotives remain working on industrial sidings and on the main British network. On heritage railways, they have become common, appearing on many of the preserved standard-gauge lines in Britain, with over 60 preserved including the first one built.
Continuing in its designed-for role as a shunter, the Class 08 has been found useful by numerous heritage railways in the UK. With over 70 examples preserved,[1] they are the second most numerous class of preserved locomotive in the UK.
Tenterden Folk Festival
Tenterden Folk Festival 29 September - 2 October 2016
Photos: Lewis J Brockway taken at the 2014 and 2015 events
More info: Tenterden - The Jewel of the Weald
Wealden Pullman arrives at Tenterden
Tenterden Town in Kent .The hidden jewel of the Weald .
Tenterden is a town with a large conservation area in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stands on the edge of the remnant forest The Weald, overlooking the valley of the River Rother. It was a member of the Cinque Ports Confederation. Its riverside today is not navigable to large vessels and its status as a wool manufacturing centre has been lost. Tenterden has several voluntary organisations, some of which are listed below, seven large or very old public houses within its area and has long distance walking and cycling routes within its boundaries.
The town's name is derived from the Old English Tenet Waraden, meaning a den or forest clearing in the forest which belonged to the men of Thanet.
History
The first record of dwellings in Tenterden can be found in a charter which mentions that it, as 'Heronden', began to grow from the 14th century around the strong local wool industry. Unlike other such centres in the Weald it had the advantage of access to the sea. Much of what is now Romney Marsh was under water, and ships docked at nearby Smallhythe. Timber from the Wealden forests was used to construct ships, and in 1449 Tenterden was incorporated into the Confederation of Cinque Ports as a limb of Rye. Ships built in the town were then used to help Rye fulfil its quota for the Crown.
A school was in existence here in 1521; later (in 1666) it was referred to as a grammar school. Today Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, a large secondary school catering for the Weald and south of Ashford Borough is in Tenterden.
In 1903, Tenterden Town railway station was opened. It closed in 1954, but half of it reopened in 1974 as the Kent and East Sussex Railway. The route starts at Tenterden Town Station and finishes at Bodiam station, near Bodiam Castle. The main line track is being extended to Robertsbridge
Churches and chapels
There are two parish churches, as well as a number of other chapels and religious meeting spaces:
St Mildred's (Anglican) is in the main part of the town. The church dates from the 12th century, and was progressively enlarged until 1461, when the distinctive tower was constructed. It was one of the churches in the 1588 system of warning beacons.
It was a major surveying point in the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) to calculate the precise distance between the Paris Observatory and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, overseen by General William Roy.
St Michael and All Angels (Anglican). The suburb now called St Michael's was known as Boresisle until Victorian times, when a church dedicated to St Michael was built to serve this community. The church was consecrated in 1863, but construction of the steeple took a further 12 years.
St. John the Baptist (Anglican).
St. Mary's Church (Anglican).
St. Andrew's Catholic Church.
Trinity Baptist Church.
Zion Baptist Church.
Jireh Chapel: Strict Baptist church.
The Methodist Church.
The Unitarian Chapel, originally called the Old Meeting House, was built c. 1695. A plaque on the wall records that Dr Benjamin Franklin worshipped here in 1783, where he was to hear Joseph Priestley preach.
The Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall.stings) in East SuPublic houses
Its large and/or old pubs are generally owned by Kentish breweries and are:
The Woolpack, next to the Town Hall,
The White Lion, the High Street
The Vine, the High Street
The William Caxton, the High Street,
The Crown, Ashford Road in St. Michaels
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Tenterden folk festival
Tenterden St. Michael's railway station October 2016
Tenterden St. Michael's was a railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway which served the Tenterden suburb of St Michaels in Kent, England. The station was situated on the southern side of a level crossing to the south of St. Michael's tunnel, one of the line's main civil engineering features. Closed in 1954, nothing remains of St. Michael's today: a footpath and cycleway runs through the site
History
Tenterden St. Michael's was opened in 1912 to serve the local community of St Michaels on the outskirts of Tenterden.It was situated immediately south of the ungated level crossing over Grange Road.
St. Michael's was little more than a halt station consisting of no more than a single platform made of sleepers and, for some time, a small corrugated iron hut which served as a ticket office.[5] So modest were the facilities that the wooden picket gate leading from the road for the use of passengers has been described as more obvious than the halt itself.By August 1938, the ticket office had closed and passengers were obliged to purchase their tickets on the train; the station had also become run-down and the track weed-strewn. It had fallen into a dangerous and decrepit state by 1953, the condition of the platform sleepers having seriously deteriorated.Regular passenger services on the line were withdrawn after the last train on Saturday 2 January 1954.
The line was engineered and operated by Colonel H F Stephens. One of his 'bigger' feats was St Michaels Tunnel, located just north of the halt.
GWR 1638 pannier tank at Tenterden - K&ESR (05-09-2019)
1638 (GWR 16xx Class 0-6-0 Pannier Tank) in BR Black at Tenterden on the Kent & East Sussex Railway on the 5th of September 2019
FOXCOTE Manor (Foxy) on the Kent and East Sussex Railway . Tenterden to Bodiam shot in 4K
Foxy on the kent and East Sussex Railway Thursday 4th May .
Tenterden - Landscape trail
One of the many delightful trail paths that lead into the town. They are important part of what makes Tenterden Jewel of the Weald. The area is a High Weald nature trail and is now under threat from a government policy to build 500 houses here despite local opinion.
Class 108 DMU at Tenterden - K&ESR (05-09-2019)
Class 108 DMU M51571/M50971 at Tenterden on the Kent & East Sussex Railway on the 5th of September 2019
Day out with thomas at tenterden
Recoupling of a steam train at Tenterden Railway
This clip was taken at Tenterden railway museum was at halloween was a great fun packed day for all the familly
How to work a Signal Box on the Kent and East Sussex Railway Tenterden to Bodiam May 2018
Guided tour of Wittersham signal box A good day out . Many thanks to Kent and East Sussex Railway
GWR Pannier 1638 Tenterden Kent & East Sussex Railway . On duty at the signal box
Although Great Western Pannier tanks go back to the 1890s, this loco 1638 was one of the last class built as late as 1955 after nationalisation, so only carried a British Railways Livery in its working life. This class was constructed to a restricted loading gauge for use on routes with low overbridges and had a modest axle loading of 13 tons 18 cwt. Many were based in South Wales and there was an allocation of 10 to Lydney in the Forest of Dean. Others worked in Cornwall in one direction and as far afield as Scotland in the other. Workings in South Wales included duties on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway.
Built at Swindon, No. 1638 was first allocated to Llanelly in March 1951 ( for service on the BPGV) and was withdrawn from service at Croes Newydd in August 1966. It was purchased direct from BR for preservation for £1300 (so did not go via Barry scrapyard) and arrived at the Dart Valley Railway on 25 November 1967. The locomotive was put up for sale in 1992 and acquired for the K&ESR.