Alpine Sunset, Part 1: Cab view from Tonbridge to Redhill. Filmed from our preserved Hastings DEMU on Saturday 30 September 2017, during our Alpine Sunset railtour.
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In this video we cover 19 miles and 56 chains, along the largely dead-straight run from Tonbridge to Redhill; this route was at one time operated by SR DEMU stock as part of the Tonbridge to Reading service.
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Video footage and its soundtrack are from an unattended unmonitored forward-facing cab-camera in motor coach 60118 Tunbridge Wells.
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This outing began at Hastings and ran via Tonbridge, Redhill and Guildford to Alton and onto the preserved Mid-Hants Watercress Line to Alresford. Following a shuttle service to and from Alton, it then retraced its steps to Aldershot; it ran via Camberley to Ascot, then to Reading, before returning via Wokingham to Guildford where the outward route was then retraced.
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0:00 – TONBRIDGE station
1:30 – Tonbridge West Junction
5:26 – Leigh station
7:12 – Penshurst Tunnel
7:23 – Penshurst station
12:52 – Edenbridge station
13:50 – Crossing over the Uckfield branch by bisecting Edenbridge Tunnel
15:20 – Site of Crowhurst Junction
15:40 – Crossing over the Oxted to East Grinstead branch
17:54 – Godstone station
18:57 – Bletchingley Tunnel
21:16 – Nutfield station
25:47 – Approaching Redhill and crossing over the Quarry Lines
26:22 – REDHILL station
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Video, soundtrack and captions © Copyright 2017–2018 Hastings Diesels Limited.
https://www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/
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Equipment: video by GoPro Hero3+ camera with suction-mount and extra batteries; video production by Da Vinci Resolve (free).
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Here are annotated extracts from the Network Rail Section Appendix:
Outward – https://www.dropbox.com/s/gifxvmyc874e046/2017-09-30_AlpineSunset-sectional-appendix-OUTWARD-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
Return – https://www.dropbox.com/s/k2baimok92qcecm/2017-09-30_AlpineSunset-sectional-appendix-RETURN-annotated-fixed.pdf?dl=0
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