Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway 95th Anniversary Gala - 14th & 15th May 2022

Over an hour of stuff I filmed during the RH&DR's 95th Anniversary Steam & Diesel Gala which began on Saturday, May 14th and ran through the night before concluding on the evening of Sunday, May 15th. The Gala included no less than 4 parallel runs, engines visiting from the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, multi-headers, freight demonstrations, tender-first running and more. Proving to be a very interesting (and busy) event.
brief timestamps: (in-depth timestamps tba)
00:00 - morning preparations at New Romney
01:16 - '95' Parallel run with engine no's 9 and 5
08:26 - Hythe - Dungeness
10:00 - Romney Sands - New Romney
11:00 - Various activities around New Romney
16:52 - New Romney - Dungeness - Hythe
17:58 - Assembling the 26 mile non-stop round trip at Hythe
19:05 - 28 mile non-stop Hythe - Hythe
24:25 - Hythe - New Romney
25:23 - Day 2 - New Romney
26:57 - Parallel Run w/ River Irt & No1
31:13 - No1 wheel-slips out of Hythe
35:18 - No1 wheel-slips out of Dymchurch
36:35 - No1 wheel-slips out of St Mary's Bay
37:39 - Arriving at New Romney
40:01 - top & tail, tender first to Romney Sands
40:21 - Non-stop to Dymchurch, then Hythe
42:02 - Hythe
42:26 - Triple-Header - Tender to Tender, Smoke Box to Smoke Box
45:07 - Various at New Romney
46:44 - New Romney - Dungeness
47:17 - New Romney - Hythe Triple-Header
51:25 - Assembling 8 loco finale parallel run
52:40 - 8 Loco Parallel Run Finale
01:03:27 - Shunting at New Romney

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Excellent video! And I’ve seen myself a few times. The Saturday was by far better than Sunday.

[@dinohdan]

Sick video!

[@veemio2669]

banger vid