Bodiam as 32670 pilots a train at Newmill Bridge in October 1985 picture copyright H.Nightingale
 
 
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by Gerald Siviour

First published in issue 72 of The Tenterden Terrier Spring 1997
Reproduced with permission of then editor Mr P D Shaw

In the Winter 1996 edition of The Tenterden Terrier (pages 44-45) it was reported that the purchase of the original Kent & East Sussex Railway Terrier No.3 “Bodiam” from Messrs Ron and Vic Wheele, who bought it from BR in 1964, was imminent. This has now happened. At a ceremony in the new Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden on   7th November cheques totalling £20 000 were handed to the Wheele family and ownership of this survivor of the Stephens era passed jointly to the Terrier Trust and the Tenterden Railway Company. The opportunity was taken to sign an agreement between them covering its full restoration and use in perpetuity on the K&ESR.

The TRC will now finance in full the cost of the boiler being built in Bradford for use on No.3, while the Trust will concentrate on raising the money for the other parts needed, estimated to cost £20-25000. These include new side tanks and cylinders.

Charity No. 1050480

 

 

 

Although these parts on the engine were in sound condition when it was withdrawn, they may well have deteriorated after 12 years of open storage. Clearly there would be great advantage in renewing them now rather than having to taken the engine out of service again in a few years’ time for this purpose.

“Bodiam” is in the Rolvenden Works Programme for completion by the year 200, hopefully to be at Bodiam when the railway returns there on its centenary. The publicity value of such an historic event would be enormous. Please join the 65 members who have taken us so far down the road to getting our most historic engine back into service.
                                                                                                        

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Footnotes:

As with the previous article, this report has been slightly edited

The cylinders were not renewed in the end. A pattern has been fabricated by Bluebell but there is no doubt they will remain the potentially biggest nemesis of these delightful tank engines

HN-02/12/2006
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