No muck without narrow gauge ~ the ELR

Various scenes from this working 2' narrow gauge in South East England, where one-coach passenger trains mix with skips full of horse manure; transported and tipped at the end of a special siding onto one big dung pile. The square grey wagon shown towards the end is a hydraulic end tipping wagon; the long coupling rail/bar enables the loco to propel this to the very end of the siding without compromising the safety of the loco on the soft dung pile. Gripping stuff! Shot 31st July 2005 on a Konica Minolta A200 bridge camera.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Industrial-Narrow-Gauge
• ELR
• train

[SittingMooseShaman]

...that hoss-poo is a valuable plant-food!

[OldVideoPro]

Delightful - as is the BBC video linked to on your website

[boleynali]

cute..not the dungpile.i like the way it seems to wander round the back of peoples gardens.

[Toyboy789]

Delightful NG action! I particularly love the not-too-pretty trackwork! Looks like a real working tramway

[NVanWendy]

Ah yes, the good old Tottering and East Dungpile... fond memories.

8-P

[robertgift]

Excellent, steady video.

Rather than wasting expensive fuel and making pollution, I would be PUSHING the cars and getting free exercise!

Looks like much fun!

[nog1000]

@robertgift

If you put in 'Darent at Bredgar' you will see more of the steam loco and plenty of whistle.

[russbere]

So glad smellivision doesn't exist yet..

[robertgift]

VIDEO THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE.

Most of this was the Diesel.

And why not one whistle?

[baldwinnut]

this line is near eynsford in southern england, some friends and myself took one of our locos to it some years ago and one of our group majorly re-shaped the gate at the end of the line. which i have to add was hysterical at the time.