New Carriage for Remembrance Day Journey at KESR
New Carriage for Remembrance Day Journey at KESR
10th November 2011
The service on Friday 11 November 2011 will include the blessing of SECR No. 3062 and its return to railway service after 90 years. Withdrawn in 1921 the coach together with three other coach bodies was incorporated into a bungalow in Ashford, Kent. Rescued and moved to Tenterden in 1986 it will be part of the historic train in service this day.
On this special day there will also be a rare and exclusive opportunity and travel to Bodiam on the 11.30am steam departure from Tenterden station. A Terrier locomotive will make this special journey with a carriage set formed of the Cavell Van, Birdcage and other historic vintage stock. The departure from Tenterden Station will follow a Service of Remembrance at 10.45am and two minutes silence at 11.00am. The service will mark ninety one years since The Cavell Van carried the coffin of the unknown warrior.
The restored Cavell Van is an important railway legacy of the Great War era and for one special weekend the Cavell Van will be on view to the public at Tenterden Station on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November 2011, between 10am and 4pm. Inside, visitors can read the moving stories of Nurse Edith Cavell; Captain Charles Fryatt and the Unknown Warrior as well as watch newsreels with footage from The British Pathé Film Archive showing scenes from 1919 and 1920 of the three burial processions, as well as scenes of the trenches.
Ttickets can be purchased for the remembrance day journey on KESR.