 Hi, thank you for joining me. I just arrived on the train we just saw depart here at Shepardswell today. Reason I've come here is because as the sign says it says a light here for the East Kent Railway and that's exactly what I've done. So we've arrived at what appears to be a really nice attractive little country station. The East Kent Railway is over there behind those trees. It's quite an interesting railway because it's one of the Colonel Stephen's light railways. He was a gentleman who built various light railways around the country. Some were standard gauge, some were narrow gauge. So probably his most famous is the Kent and East Sussex which obviously is quite a well-known heritage line but the East Kent was another one of his built. Quite a late one built. Built as late as 1912 and was open until 1986 because it served the colliery and then when it closed it became heritage. So what we're going to do is we're going to go up over the bridge and round out the front of the station to find East Kent Light Railway. Got a nice old lattice footbridge here. The station is fully accessible because there is another entrance just down there. There's the long tunnel we've just come through. So that's looking towards Dover that way and I'll just show you from here while we're on the bridge. Looking north is towards Fabersham. You can just see the summit. So if a steam train came through here it'd be working quite hard until it got to that summit and then the steam locomotive would be able to shut off and roll down the hill through Canterbury towards Fabersham. It's a really attractive little station. I like this station on Air Bintree before, passed through a couple of times. You can see the signal box up there as well. So we've got to find our way out. I think the exit is over here. Make a nice house this station. I wouldn't mind living here. So I'll let you have one last look at the main line. You just see the signal box and the wind is blowing all the leaves off the trees. So as we come out here and believe you, yeah, there's a south east and a foot sign up, which is very good. It says East Kent Light Railway. So there's no question of what way to go, which way to go. There's the front of the railway station. So let's go and ride East Kent Light Railway. Never, ever been here before. So as I record this video I am seeing it all for the first time. Interesting here we have a few narrow gauge wagons. Must be a nod to the line's collieries, which it served. I believe there used to be a big good shed here. From looking at an old picture somewhere around here, there had been a good shed for when, you know, there used to be the pickup goods. So here we have some narrow gauge coal wagons. That's interesting. It looks like a pump truck, but it's got a, I've never seen one quite like that before. So, oh, and there's a train about. Oh, it's javelin. And there's the signal box. I can't actually see. It's very faint, but it still says shepherd's well in Network South East Colors. So, railway station down there. So I think that's where we're going to go to get the standard gauge train, but let's just have a, what's this? Oh look, East Kent Miniature Railway. Doesn't look like it's running today, but there is a Miniature Railway. I can see standard gauge train down there at the station. Let's just have a little walk around here first and then we'll go down there. So that Miniature Railway, it looks like it just goes up there. So it's quite a short one. I think they have got a longer Miniature Railway here, which I'm hoping I'll have a ride on, but we'll see. So there's actually a triangle of lines here. So some track that went that way to join the main line. The East Kent Railway itself goes off in that direction. So let's just see what we find down here and then we'll go and have a look. We'll go and have a ride on the train. We've got a steam locomotive, a little industrial steam locomotive. We've got an OH Schunter, a couple of other diesel locomotives. I already quite like this place. Model railway, I'm going to have to go and have a look at that. Just let you see the steam engine. Just to up here and then I'll better go and find out when the train is running by my ticket and we can go for a ride to be up over there. So here, quite an interesting array of equipment we've got here. Oh look, Woodland Miniature Railway. I'm just going to have a ride on that as well. So here we go. Richborough Castle. Now the East Kent like railway did once go as far as Richborough. There was a power station which was demolished a few years ago. Here we have another little local. This one's called Snowdown, which is the name of the station further up the railway. I'm going to go now by my ticket and we're going to go for a ride. The train has arrived. Quite an interesting mix of rolling stock and locos. We had former Southern region EMU carriage on the front, then there's a Mark II brake coach. That's a rather interesting looking diesel locomotive. I've never had one of these before. I think they're XMOD but I'm not 100% sure. My knowledge more covers the BR locos. There's so many industrial locos. I just don't know too much about them. Interestingly, there's a pacer up there, fairly newly arrived. I never ever thought I'd see a pacer this far south. There's Snowdown again, a locomotive we saw a moment ago from the other side. What are we going to do? We're going to walk up. It's quite interesting on there's Richbrook Castle again. We're sort of in the apex of the two lines here. There's another 08 Junter. We'll have a look at what's the other side of the locomotive and carriages when we get round there. I'm just going to take you round this way first. We're going to have our ride and then what I'm going to do after we've had a ride we'll go on the miniature railway. I'm going to put that in a separate miniature railway Britain video so that won't be in this video. There's another X Army diesel locomotive and here's another locos like the one we're going to travel behind. I think the model rail is in that carriage there so we'll go in there see what we can find. Here's an 08 Junter. There's that steam locomotive, industrial steam locomotive again. It's quite an interesting mix of different locos and rolling stock. I don't think it's the sort of place where you're going to see sort of big former BR steam or diesel locomotives but we're going to see lots of interesting stuff. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to go to the model railway see what we have to see there. I'm just going to put my mask on so I can stop filming for a second. I'm going in there now. Put on a bit later. There we go. Hello. What I'll do, I'll do some static shots which I'll put in but let's just have a walk through. That's a really impressive layout. There's another carriage which goes through to here and they've got an engaged layout. So there's an engaged layout. Like I said, I will put some other, I've got a G-scale layout but I'm going to put some other shots in this program. And then there's one more layout so I'm going to get some shots and I'll put them into the video now. I've just enjoyed seeing the model railways off double over gauge, engage and G-scale. That way we'll take us back to the main station but of course we've come here to have a ride on the standard gauge. He's kept railway so he's fine. There's two of the trains. That's exactly where we're going to go. I'm going down this nice leafy road which will take us down to the railway station where we're going to catch our train. So where we've saw it come in that was from the picnic area the other side of the station. So you can just see our train is waiting for us there which we'll take down here first and couple things on to show you. We've got a little packet steam loco. We will see the front in a moment but it's this that I really like. It's a Fumper. It's actually 205-001 so the first one they built and I do remember these in service. So for me it's nostalgic to see one. I never traveled on one in service but I do remember them. Interesting view of a Fumper 08 and I can just see a Pacer in the background and of course the packet in the foreground. So as we come out here get a better view here near the packet there's another 08 Shunter and over there is our train. So I've got to go to take it off this apartment to have a ride on the 19th. I just boarded the train I'm in my first class compartment so it's just me so I've been told I don't need to wear face covering. It's pretty nice this first class so I'm enjoying it looking forward to enjoying the ride for what's going to be a four mile round trip up to I-form. I've been told we can't get out I-form for COVID reasons which is fair enough. I'm happy enough to be riding on the train. Just have a look out there. So us to see the train arrive and see all the diesel locos out there so when we're now going to go for a ride up the line to I-form. In fact there's some interesting railway vehicles which I'm going to show you as we go past. If you have a to extend the railway up to Tillmanstone College soon going to travel back to Shepardswell. As we depart the station there's a couple of things there's some very interesting bits of rolling stock in that bay platform so I'll show those to you as we go past and I enjoy the ride back down through the tunnel to Shepardswell and when we get to Shepardswell I'll do the second part of this video which will be a separate video we're going to go and have a ride on the Minutes Railway. So we're just now waiting to depart I-form station the driver will go to the other end and the diesel loco is going to propel us back as we saw when we saw the train arrive at Shepardswell and if you're wondering why there's two of me that's because there is a giant mirror in this carriage so we've just got to wait now for the journey back to Shepardswell. So here we are at I-form this is the current end of the line we're just about to depart and head back to Shepardswell the track does continue beyond I-form station for about half a mile or so there is a talk of extending it to Tillman Stone Colliery where the line ran till until 1986 whether that will happen or not I don't know so I'll show you a couple of things here we have a rather interesting looking electric locomotive I remember when this was at the Coventry Railway Centre also known as the airfield line or the Electric Rail Museum and so was this vehicle this is prototype diesel electric multiple unit carriage so they were bought here when that was closed what we're going to do now is we're just going to enjoy the journey back down through the tunnel to Shepardswell and when we get to Shepardswell I'm going to record another video a trip on the Minutes Railway so do watch out the Minutes Railway video will be coming soon I've really enjoyed my trip though on the East Kent Light Railway so thank you very much for watching do come and visit them and please do feel free to like subscribe comment thank you very much for watching goodbye