Canterbury Bell, Part 2: Cab view from Ashford International to Dover Priory, filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 31 December 2016, during the outward leg of our Canterbury Bell railtour.
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In this video we cover the 23 miles and 57 chains along the South Eastern Main Line from Ashford International to Dover Priory. This includes the section between Folkestone and Dover which had been out of bounds to our train if carrying passengers — until provision was made in the twin singlebore Shakespeare Tunnels to facilitate emergency egress from trains such as ours that have no end gangways. At the eastern end of Shakespeare Tunnel we also pass over the new viaduct built during 2016 after the original line was damaged in a storm a year earlier.
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Video and audio footage are from an unattended unmonitored forwardfacing cabcamera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. The railtour began at Eastbourne and ran via Rye and Dover to Faversham.
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0:00 – ASHFORD INTERNATIONAL station
4:59 – Sevington sidings
8:05 – Smeeth
9:38 – Herringe
11:48 – Westenhanger station
13:08 – Sandling Tunnel
13:39 – Sandling Station
14:07 – Saltwood Tunnel
14:51 – Saltwood Junction
16:29 – Cheriton Junction (former)
17:21 – Cheriton
17:40 – Folkestone West station
18:46 – Folkestone Central station
20:09 – Foord Viaduct
20:57 – Folkestone East
21:31 – Martello Tunnel
21:55 – Folkestone Warren
23:41 – Abbotscliffe Tunnel
25:20 – Samphire Hoe Country Park
26:17 – Shakespeare Tunnel
27:37 – new viaduct over foreshore
28:40 – Archcliffe Junction (former)
29:17 – Hawkesbury Street Junction (former)
29:57 – Dover Harbour Tunnel
32:12 – DOVER PRIORY station
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2016–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video and its soundtrack by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suctionmount and extra batteries; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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In Part 1 of this tour we ran across the Marshlink Line from Hastings via Rye to Ashford International; and in Part 3 we will complete our journey from Dover Priory to Canterbury East and Faversham.
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Here is a link to an annotated extract from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27wsjbrkro7...