A BIT OF A PITCH-IN – by Albert Mutton

First uploaded 19 Dec 08

Mishaps were few and far between, but when they happened it was usually in quite spectacular fashion. These four photos by John Horton, a driver who was there at the time show just how…

Whoops! 4 CEP, 1521, above ran through the buffers in the sidings at Ramsgate and was left perched several feet up in the air.

Ramsgate had a few problems with CEPs; 1537, which still survives, at the East Kent Railway developed what wits called ‘a major earth fault’ when it also decided to see what lay beyond the buffer stops.

Ramsgate as CEP 1607 takes the wrong turn outside the depot.

Faversham this time. Here, the driver was reversing out onto what he thought was the main line, but which turned out to be the sand-drag

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