Monument record TQ 77 SE 185 - Kingsnorth Light Railway
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TQ 7990 7318 (1729m by 1842m) |
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Map sheet | TQ77SE |
County | KENT |
Civil Parish | HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
Unitary Authority | MEDWAY |
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Type and Period (1)
Full Description
From the source: “Details of locomotives used on the Lodge Hill to Sharnal Street line from about 1904 to 1944 are unknown. However, in later years this line made an end−on connection at Sharnal Street with the Kingsnorth Light Railway - a line operated by Holm & Co. Ltd., who seem to have obtained their first standard gauge locomotive (0−4−0ST OC Kerr Stuart 4227 of 1929) in 1929. The KLR ran from Sharnal Street to a pier on the Medway about 1½ miles east of Hoo. It is understood that this line and premises were disused when taken over by Holm & Co. Ltd., but had previously been laid out as an Admiralty Royal Naval Airship Station. This Station operated during the First World War and had its own locomotive (0−4−0ST OC Andrew Barclay 1398 of 1915). This locomotive may have worked through to Lodge Hill during the period (1915 to 1919) it was at the Station, and so might the KLR locomotives until the KLR closed in 1940. We know that the KLR steam locomotive went away to Woolwich Arsenal, but of the two KLR Hardy petrol locomotives (built in 1930 and 1936) we have lost all trace. “
(1)
<1> D. Yeatman, 1966, Lodge Hill & Upnor Railway (Article in serial). SKE16256.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SKE16256 Article in serial: D. Yeatman. 1966. Lodge Hill & Upnor Railway. No. 12: 277-292.
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Record last edited
Oct 17 2012 11:41AM