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    Hastings Diesels Limited No. 1001

    Aug 03, 2020 4 minutes

    HASTINGS MAIN LINE ‘Thumper’ diesel-electric multiple units (DEMUs) are unique in having a narrow body profile of eight-foot width over the body panels (nine-foot over the footsteps) to allow for the restricted loading gauge of the South Eastern Railway (SER) Tunbridge Wells to Hastings line.

    The route was built and opened in stages between 1846 and 1852. Diverging from the Kent Coast line at Tonbridge (originally Tunbridge), the line traversed difficult terrain which required numerous tunnels and other major infrastructure works which put pressure on the already financially challenged SER which was compelled to invest heavily in the Ashford-Hastings

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