D8048 Calehill Heath (Charing) 19 July 2002

One of the country's oldest locomotives at work on the construction of the country's newest railway in 2002! 80048 is pictured at Calehill Heath (near Charing) on 19 July 2002 with a works train on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1). The bridge in the background carries the Charing to Pluckley road over the new line, which can been disappearing down a severe gradient into the distance.