North Kent Coast: Early progress shots.

chrispierce · Post by **chrispierce** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:42 pm

Here's a few progress shots of my 'North Kent' route, from Margate, to Gillingham, Chatham and Hoo Junction.

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A 412 unit about to cross Rochester viaduct, with the 'Strood triangle' behind.

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A 412 enters Chatham, from Rochester.

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The junction for the Gillingham docks branch.

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A view of Gillingam traincare

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A few of Faversham looking south

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A few of Faversham looking North.

champy · Post by **champy** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:01 pm

cool stuff looks the biz

Jon

bsbnns · Post by **bsbnns** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:07 pm

Lookin great!, waht wagons is that behind the 60?
Cheers!
MK

chrispierce · Post by **chrispierce** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:10 pm

bsbnns wrote:Lookin great!, what wagons is that behind the 60?
Cheers!
MK

It's a consist i found on the Thames mersey CD, the wagons are marked up as the Sheppy steel company i think.

bsbnns · Post by **bsbnns** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:14 pm

ahh ok

ccsdc · Post by **ccsdc** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:18 pm

bsbnns wrote:Lookin great!, waht wagons is that behind the 60?
Cheers!
MK

"Sheerness Steel" JXA wagons if they are the ones from TM - very appropriate for North Kent.

Dave

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:13 pm

Looks good mate!

champy · Post by **champy** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:54 pm

ccsdc wrote:
bsbnns wrote:Lookin great!, waht wagons is that behind the 60?
Cheers!
MK
"Sheerness Steel" JXA wagons if they are the ones from TM - very appropriate for North Kent.

Dave

Not when EWS are on strike and the scraps going by Lorry at night

Jon

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:08 am

where can I get it from?

champy · Post by **champy** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:55 am

This at a guess is a teaser as i think the route is well under construction.
Could you tell us how far along you actually are?

Best wishes

Jon

Post by **martinhodgson** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:16 am

Looks terrific!

chrispierce · Post by **chrispierce** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:17 pm

champy wrote:This at a guess is a teaser as i think the route is well under construction.
Could you tell us how far along you actually are?

Best wishes

Jon

The route itself stretches from Strood to Faversham, then branches off to Margate. The track is 99% complete (just got to add in a few cross overs etc) A few sections of scenary are done. It'll be a while before its finish, but good progress is being made.

champy · Post by **champy** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:54 pm

cool stuff
Looking foward to it

Jon

chrispierce · Post by **chrispierce** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:36 pm

The final part of track laying from Strood to Just east of Gravesend was finished today. This section included the Hoo Junction complex, so here's a few shots for the first train.

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A EWS 66 entering the yard, the view is looking twoard gravesend

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Same train but from the opposite angle, looking toward Strood

y2flexy · Post by **y2flexy** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:42 pm

are you still only going to hoo junction or not? or gonna go all the way to gravesend? (please say ur going to gravesend! lol)

looks ace, will be strange going through strood tunnel again, has been a while...