Canterbury Bell, Part 3: Cab view from Dover Priory to Faversham, filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 31 December 2016, during the outward leg of our Canterbury Bell railtour.
.
In this video we cover the 25 miles and 29 chains along the London Chatham & Dover Railway, from Dover Priory to Faversham via Canterbury East. It is all ups and downs — a 7-mile climb from Dover to beyond Shepherdswell followed by a similarly long descent into Canterbury, and then another lengthy climb to Selling Tunnel and back down into Faversham. It also takes us through the Kent Coalfields, some of which were quite productive until the miners’ strikes in the 1980s saw their closure.
.
Video and audio footage are from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60116 Mountfield. The railtour began at Eastbourne and ran via Rye and Dover to Faversham. The return leg was mostly in the dark and was not video-recorded.
.
0:00 – DOVER PRIORY station
1:25 – Dover Priory Tunnel
2:14 – Charlton Tunnel
3:44 – Buckland Junction
5:56 – Kearsney station
8:25 – Stonehall & Lydden
8:43 – Lydden Tunnel
10:50 – Shepherdswell station
12:45 – Snowdown Colliery
13:18 – Snowdown station
14:14 – Aylesham station
15:17 – Adisham station
18:12 – Bekesbourne station
20:06 – approach to Canterbury
21:50 – CANTERBURY EAST station
25:44 – crossing the Canterbury West line
32:48 – Selling Tunnel
34:36 – Selling station
37:42 – approach to Faversham
40:34 – FAVERSHAM station
.
Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2016–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
.
Equipment: video and its soundtrack by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; processing by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
.
In Part 1 of this tour we ran across the Marshlink Line from Hastings via Rye to Ashford International; and Part 2 covered the section from Ashford Internation to Dover Priory via Folkestone and the amazing foot-of-the-White-Cliffs stretch.
.
Here is a link to an annotated extract from Network Rail’s Sectional Appendix:
Outward: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27wsjbrkro7lj5i/2016-12-31_Canterbury-Bell_Sectional-Appendix-Annotated.pdf?dl=0