11th March 2001

Hastings Diesels Ltd
All Points of the Kent Compass

DEMU Used 1001 (running as a 6-car set)

Route :
1Z66 : Hastings to Margate
1Z67 : Margate to Hastings

DEMU Route
as listed

Hastings - Tunbridge Wells - Tonbridge - Paddock Wood - Cranmore Down Loop - Headcorn - Ashford - Appledore - Dungeness - Appledore - Ashford - Canterbury West Down Goods Loop - Minster - Ramsgate - Margate

as listed Margate - Herne Bay - Faversham - Sittingbourne - Eastern Jn - Middle Jn - Queenborough - Sheerness
as listed Sheerness - Queenborough - Middle Jn - Western Jn - Gillingham - Strood - Maidstone West - Paddock Wood - (reverse of outward route) - Hastings

Source : John Clifford

Timings (Booked & Actual)
(from John Clifford)

Location Booked Actual   Booked Actual
Hastings 09.04d ?   19.05a 19.09½
Bopeep Jn 09/08 ?   19/01 19/04
Battle 09.18a ~ 09.19d ?   18.52½a ~ 18.53½d 18.54½ ~ 18.55½
Mountfield Tunnel 09/24½ ?   18/48 18/48
Robertsbridge 09/26½ ?   18/45 18/44½
Etchingham 09.31a ~ 09.32d ?   18.40a ~ 18.41d 18.40½ ~ 18.41
Wadhurst 09/43 ?   18/30½ 18/32
Strawberry Hill Tunnel 09/47½ ?   18/22½ 18/24½
Tunbridge Wells Central 09.49½a ~ 09.50½d ?   18.19a ~ 18.20d 18.21½ ~ 18.22½
Wells Tunnel Jn 09/52 ?   18/17½ 18/19½
Somerhill Tunnel 09/57 ?   18/12½ 18/13
Tonbridge 10.0a ~ 10.09d 10.13 ~ 10.19   18.04a ~ 18.10d 18.03½ ~ 18.10
Tonbridge sig. AD164   17.54 ~ 18.02 17.57½ ~ 18.02
Paddock Wood 10/16 10/26   17/48 17/49½

 

Location Booked Actual
Cranmore Down Loop 10.26 ~ 10.35 10/36
Headcorn 10/37 10/37½
Ashford 10.49½ ~ 10.51 10.51½ ~ 10.54
Appledore 11.03 ~ 11.04 11.08½ ~ 11.09
Lydd Town 11.44 ~ 11.51 11.46½ ~ 11.53½
Dungeness 11.56 ~ 12.01 12.03½ ~ 12.09
Lydd Town 12.06 ~ 12.16 12.19½ ~ 12.25
Appledore 13.00 ~ 13.14 13.15½ ~ 13.16
Ashford 13.26 ~ 13.33 13.30 ~ 13.34½
Canterbury West DGL 13/53 13/55½
Minster 14/07 14/11
Minster East Jn 14/08 14/11½
Ramsgate 14/13 14/16
Margate 14.22a ~ 15.29d 14.26½ ~ 15.29½
Herne Bay 15/41 15/44½
Faversham 15/53 15/56½
Sittingbourne 16/02 16/05
Eastern Jn 16/03½ 16/06
Kemsley Halt 16/06 16/09
Queenborough 16/12 16/16
Sheerness 16.16 ~ 16.26 16.21½ ~ 16.26½
Queenborough 16.30 ~ 16.35 16.32 ~ 16.34½
Kemsley Halt 16/41 16/43½
Western Jn 16/44 16.47 ~ 16.47½
Newington (Up Loop) 16/58 17/07½
Rainham 16/50 16/59½
Gillingham 16/53½ 17/03
Rochester (Up Loop) 16/58 17/07½
Rochester Bridge Jn 17/00 17/08½
Strood 17.02 ~ 17.10 17.09½ ~ 17.14
Maidstone West 17/28 17/32

Timings continue in first table.

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