Custodians of locomotives No 3 "Bodiam" and No 2678

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  • 32678 works the K&ESR's train of magnificently restored Victorian carriages - May 2018. © Alan Crotty

    32678 works the K&ESR's train of magnificently restored Victorian carriages - May 2018. © Alan Crotty

  • No 3 Bodiam crosses Cranbrook Road with a Tenterden-bound goods train at the K&ESR's Spring Gala on 4 May 2008. © Graham Hukins

    No 3 Bodiam crosses Cranbrook Road with a Tenterden-bound goods train at the K&ESR's Spring Gala on 4 May 2008. © Graham Hukins

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    32678 leaves Rolvenden 21st March 2010. © Tony Eaton

  • 32678 sporting The Terrier Trust headboard, runs round it's train at Bodiam - 12 May 2018. © Neil Instrall

    32678 sporting The Terrier Trust headboard, runs round its train at Bodiam - 12 May 2018. © Neil Instrall

  • An immaculate No 3 Bodiam at Tenterden Town Station at the start of the All Terriers Great & Small Gala on 6 May 2006. © Ralph Tilley; A timeless scene as 32678 heads a short goods train round Orpin's Curve en route from Rolvenden to Tenterden Town on 24 March 2012. © David Haggar; A bucolic scene as 32670 sets off from Wittersham Road with a single brake van in tow to convey the Forestry & Conservation gang to their worksite at Rother Bridge. Autumn 2016 © Neil Instrall

    No 3 Bodiam at Tenterden 6-5-06 © R Tilley; 32678 heads a short goods train 24-03-12 © D Haggar; 32670 sets off from Wittersham Road - autumn 2016 © N Instrall

  • 32670 heads a 2 car special conveying K&ESR volunteers who who helped re-open the line in 1974. The re-union was part of the K&ESR's 40th Anniversary of reopening celebrations. © Hugh Nightingale

    32670 heads a 2 car special conveying K&ESR volunteers who who helped re-open the line in 1974. Part of the K&ESR's 40th Anniversary. © Hugh Nightingale

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THE TERRIER TRUST

The Terrier Trust is the custodian of two Victorian steam locomotives that can be seen at the Kent & East Sussex Railway.  Almost uniquely in preservation, the pair have spent the majority of their working lives hauling trains on this delightful, rural railway which was associated with "Terriers" before its closure and reinvention as a popular heritage railway.

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 2678 TO STAR IN KENT & EAST SUSSEX GALA - 7 & 8 NOVEMBER

The Trust's Terrier, No 2678 will provide genuine SR authenticity at the K&ESR's Gala "Southern Through The Ages" gala on 7 and 8 November. The loco is the only genuine SR engine so confirmed for the two-day event that aims to tell the story of the Southern Railway. Although thye K&ESR was fiercly independent in SR days and never part of the 1923, 2678 was hired from the Southern to help cover a K&ESR loco shortage from 1940 and stayed through that decade and into the 1950s by which time the line had been nationalised as part of British Railways. Further details of the gala can be found at https://kesr.org.uk/southern-through-the-ages/

 

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Trust Led Team Nominated For National Award

 

How A Steam Engine Works

 2678 Features in Free Educational Video - How A Steam Engine Works

 

70 and 2678 2 June 2022 Tim Gregson

Terriers Star at Best of British Weekend