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Strange that the Austin 8 your taxi followed (comments, Oct 11th) had transmogrified into a Standard 10 when you got there, but how appropriate for the date!

And the comment tally for the No 10 bus article you posted at 10:10 on 10/10/10 currently stands at ......ten!

Timbo | 12.10.10 - 2:42 p.m. | #

Nice blog today (and the last couple of days): your 10/10/10 sounds far better than mine was :)

arobba | 12.10.10 - 5:05 p.m. | #

I can't tell one vintage car from another, so was only able to confirm the model once I'd checked out a very detailed Flickr set after the event.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.10.10 - 5:56 p.m. | #

It's always disappointing when you find a diesel train instead of steam - I had the same problem in Yorkshire recently. However sometimes you just don't have the volunteers to do it and some of those old railcars can be quite fun and retro feeling!

That castle looks very impressive.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 12.10.10 - 5:58 p.m. | #

Reading this post made me quite nostalgic those cars, remember most of them from when I last lived in the UK. My father had a Austin A35, 427 MMU.
I hope to make the same trip next year.

Michael | 12.10.10 - 6:21 p.m. | #

Excellent stuff (of course). Although I have lived in London and the South East virtually all my life this area is not one I am very familiar with. When you started talking about Tenterden I thought . . . erm sounds interesting and started looking at the map. I noticed the K&ESR and followed the line on the map to Bodiam. I'd heard of the castle, but knew nothing about it, let alone that it was within walking distance of a preserved railway. After reading about the castle and seeing pictures I thought what a fantastic day out this could be, combining . . . etc etc. L.

Lorenzo | 12.10.10 - 6:32 p.m. | #

Visited Bodiam about 5 years ago, and you're right, it's a treasure.

CornishCockney | 12.10.10 - 8:58 p.m. | #

I think you'll find that the Thomas-fancying toddlers were with me over at the Spa Valley Railway.
http://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk/SpaThomasEvent.htm

Sven Ellis | 13.10.10 - 11:43 a.m. | #

Was watching the other day the Challenge Anneka episode that restored Northiam station. Strange that nowhere on the K&ESR site is mention of this.

PG | 13.10.10 - 3:07 p.m. | #

Oh, Yes!!
As a child (between 2 weeks and 9 years old) I lived in Tenterden, just up the road from the station. the trains had stopped running (even local freight) and no-one had yet thought of the nostalgia of preserved railways, so it made a wonderful playground. My friends and I would spend hours and walk what seemed to our short legs to be miles and miles along the track, playing games where our imaginations provided adventure and excitement on tracks busy with trains! (Oh the joys of that innocent age, where you were just told not to take sweets from strangers, not to run a mile screaming your head off at the sight of an unknown face!!)

Ann

Ann | 13.10.10 - 3:12 p.m. | #

Hooray! Glad you enjoyed it DG. I grew up in Cranbrook, near Tenterden, and spent many happy days on the K&ESR and at Bodium, though separately in those days because they only extended the railway to Bodium a few years ago. Nice pics too.

ALB | Homepage | 18.10.10 - 12:48 a.m. | #











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