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4...The "General Thread" of......Dover's Railways, Kent.


David Todd

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There was a lot of perishable traffic conveyed for Transfesa on the Trainferry.  A large proportion of this was tripped on a daily basis from Dover to Paddock Wood.

 

As priority traffic it was on occasion run straight from the Ferry Yard.  In this shot 73113 "County of West Sussex", in Intercity Livery, is at the head of a rake of Transfesa wooden vans loaded with onions ready to propel out of the yard, "Right Away" to Paddock Wood.

One early turn when booked Supervisor, Dover Town and Ferry Yard, the carriage and wagon fitters were on strike and would not carry out the brake continuity test on some Transfesa Vans pulled off the boat as a freight ready to go.  I carried out the test and within six minutes of the ferry berthing, the train was on its way . . 

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