MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Lineside and Station Sequences
Part Eleven
Ashford and Tonbridge – 29 February 1960
On Leap Year’s Day, on my way home to Chingford from my Kent adventure, I took one photo, from my train I think, at Ashford. Then I stopped off for a couple of hours at Tonbridge, where I took fourteen photos covering ten classes of steam locomotives, and no diesels.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
8:30 SR Schools 4-4-0 No 30935 'Sevenoaks' waits at Ashford with a down stopping passenger train on 29 February 1960.
9:22 SECR H Class 0-4-4T No 31193 waits at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960 with a branch train.
9:29 SECR Class C 0-6-0 No 31724 storms through Tonbridge on 29 February 1960 with a down Hastings line freight.
9:45 SECR Class N 2-6-0 No 31408 poses at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960.
9:50 The new and the old - SR Rebuilt West Country 4-6-2 No 34004 'Yeovil' passes an unidentified SR C Class 0-6-0 on an up express
at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960.
9:58 SR Rebuilt West Country 4-6-2 No 34037 'Clovelly' runs towards its stop at Tonbridge on a down express on 29 February 1960.
10:10 SR Class U1 2-6-0 No 31904 heads a down stopping passenger train into Tonbridge on 29 February 1960, with another train close behind it.
10:25 SECR H Class 0-4-4T No 31553 arrives at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960 with a branch train.
10:33 SR Unrebuilt Battle of Britain 4-6-2 No 34083 '605 Squadron' waits for the signal on an up express at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960.
10:48 SR Unrebuilt Battle of Britain 4-6-2 No 34066 'Spitfire' heads through Tonbridge on a down express on 29 February 1960.
10:51 SR Q1 0-6-0 No 33001 shunts at the up end of Tonbridge station on 29 February 1960.
10:53 SECR N Class 2-6-0 No 31816 enters Tonbridge on the through line with a freight from the west on 29 February 1960.
10:55 SECR L Class 4-4-0 No 31771 waits to leave from the up bay at Tonbridge on a stopping passenger train on 29 February 1960.
11:12 BR Class 4 2-6-4T No 80145 arrives at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960.
11:18 SECR N1 2-6-0 No 31877 heads a freight through the platform road at Tonbridge on 29 February 1960.
