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A229 road
The A229 is a major road running north-south through Kent from Rochester to Hawkhurst via Maidstone.
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Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, Acts of Parliament are primary legislation passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Alfred Gathorne-Hardy
Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (27 February 1845 – 11 November 1918), styled The Honourable from 1878, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Appledore railway station (Kent)
Appledore railway station lies east of Appledore in Kent, England.
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Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.
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Bay platform
In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Benenden
Benenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England.
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Benenden School
Benenden School is an independent boarding school for girls in Kent, England.
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Biddenden
Biddenden is a large, mostly agricultural and wooded village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
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Blackfriars station
Blackfriars, also known as London Blackfriars, is a central London railway station and connected London Underground station located in the City of London.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
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Boarding school
A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.
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Branch
A branch or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub).
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Branch line
A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.
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Brickworks
A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.
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British Royal Train
In the United Kingdom, the Royal Train is used to convey senior members of the British Royal Family and associated staff of the Royal Household around the railway network of Great Britain.
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Buffer stop
A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track.
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Business magnate
A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.
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Camera operator
A camera operator, sometimes informally called a cameraman, is a professional operator of a film or video camera.
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Commuting
Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work, or study, and in doing so exceed the boundary of their residential community.
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Container garden
Container gardening or pot gardening is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground.
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Corridor coach
A corridor coach is a type of railway passenger coach divided into compartments and having a corridor down one side of the coach to allow free movement along the train and between compartments.
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Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway
The Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway was a railway line which was to have linked the Hawkhurst Branch Line with the Rother Valley Railway in Kent.
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Cranbrook railway station (Kent)
| Cranbrook railway station is a disused English station which was on the closed Hawkhurst Branch in Kent, England.
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Cranbrook School, Kent
Cranbrook School (formerly Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School) is a co-educational not a grammar boarding and day school in the market town of Cranbrook, Kent, England.
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Cranbrook, Kent
Cranbrook is a small town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England.
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Croydon
Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.
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Cut (earthmoving)
In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock material from a relative rise (elevated landscape) to an earlier section of the route is cut out to make way for a further section of the route, whether canal, road or railway line.
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David St John Thomas
David St John Thomas (30 August 1929 – 19 August 2014) was an English publisher and writer who founded David & Charles.
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Dungeness (headland)
Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland.
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Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal politician.
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Edward Watkin
Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur.
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Elisabeth Beresford
Elisabeth "Liza" Beresford, MBE (6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010) was a British author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles.
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Embankment (transportation)
A road, railway line or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain, the alternatives being either to have an unacceptable change in level or detour to follow a contour.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Flimwell
The village of Flimwell is in the civil parish of Ticehurst, in the Rother District of East Sussex, England.
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Folkestone East railway station
Folkestone East is a former railway station in Folkestone, England.
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Francis Marindin
Colonel Sir Francis Arthur Marindin, KCMG (1 May 1838 – 21 April 1900) served with the Royal Engineers and was a key figure in the early development of association football.
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General Utility Van
A General Utility Van (GUV) is a type of rail vehicle built by British Rail and its predecessors, which was primarily used for transporting mail and parcels.
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Glossary of textile manufacturing
The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies.
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Goods wagon
Goods wagons or freight wagons (North America: goods cars or freight cars) are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
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Goudhurst
Goudhurst is a village in Kent on the Weald, about south of Maidstone.
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Goudhurst railway station
Goudhurst is a closed railway station on the closed Hawkhurst Branch in Kent, England.
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H. F. Stephens
Colonel Holman Fred Stephens (30 October 1868 – 23 October 1931) was a British light railway civil engineer and manager.
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Harry Wainwright
Harry Smith Wainwright (16 November 1864 – 19 September 1925) was the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1899 to 1913.
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Hartley, Cranbrook
Hartley is a village one mile southwest of Cranbrook in Kent, England.
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Hastings line
The Hastings line is a secondary railway line in Kent and East Sussex, England, linking with the main town of, and from there into London via and.
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Hawkhurst
Hawkhurst is an affluent village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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Hawkhurst railway station
| Hawkhurst railway station was on the closed Hawkhurst Branch in Kent, England.
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Headcorn
Headcorn is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England.
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Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate
Established in 1840, HM Railway Inspectorate (HMRI: Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate) is the British organisation responsible for overseeing safety on Britain's railways and tramways.
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Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.
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Horsmonden
Horsmonden is a village in the Tunbridge Wells district of Kent, England.
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Horsmonden railway station
Horsmonden is a closed railway station on the closed Hawkhurst Branch in Kent, England.
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Humulus
Humulus, hop, is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.
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Hythe, Kent
Hythe is a small coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the district of Folkestone and Hythe on the south coast of Kent.
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Ian Allan Publishing
Ian Allan Publishing is a UK publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.
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Incorporation (business)
Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law).
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Infill
Infill is the urban planning term for the rededication of land in an urban environment, usually open-space, to new construction.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV is a British commercial TV network.
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ITV Meridian
ITV Meridian (previously Meridian Broadcasting) is the holder of the ITV franchise for the South and South East of England.
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Jack Payne (bandleader)
John Wesley Vivian "Jack" Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British dance music bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s.
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James Cudworth
James I'Anson Cudworth (12 January 1817 – 22 October 1899) was Locomotive Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway (SER).
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James Stirling (1835–1917)
James Stirling (1835–1917) was a Scottish mechanical engineer.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Kent and East Sussex Railway
The Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) refers to both an historical private railway company in Kent and East Sussex in England, as well as a heritage railway currently running on part of the route of the historical company.
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Kent County Council
Kent County Council is a county council that governs most of the county of Kent in England.
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Lamberhurst
Lamberhurst (is a village and civil parish in Kent containing the hamlets of The Down and Hook Green. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,491, increasing to 1,706 at the 2011 Census.
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Land tenure
In common law systems, land tenure is the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to "hold" the land.
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LCDR R class
The LCDR R class was a class of 0-4-4T locomotives on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR).
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LCDR R1 class
The LCDR R1 class was a class of 0-4-4T locomotives on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, which were based on an existing London, Chatham and Dover Railway design.
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Level crossing
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.
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Lever frame
Mechanical railway signalling installations rely on lever frames for their operation to interlock the signals and points to allow the safe operation of trains in the area the signals control.
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Light Railways Act 1896
The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c.48) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was).
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Local education authority
Local education authorities (LEAs) are the local councils in England and Wales that are responsible for education within their jurisdiction.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London and South Western Railway
The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.
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London Waterloo station
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.
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London, Chatham and Dover Railway
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) was a railway company in south-eastern England created on 1 August 1859, when the East Kent Railway was given Parliamentary approval to change its name.
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Maidstone
Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.
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Maidstone & District Motor Services
Maidstone & District Motor Services Arriva Kent & Surrey Limited formerly Arriva Kent & Sussex Limited formerly Maidstone & District Motor Services Limited was a bus company based in Maidstone, Kent.
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Marshlink line
The Marshlink line is a railway line in South East England.
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Medway Valley line
The Medway Valley line is the name given to the railway line linking and the Medway Towns with and onward to, and London St Pancras International (peak only).
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Metro Cammell
The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW) was an English manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath in Birmingham.
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Metropolitan Railway
The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.
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Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday is a holiday celebrated by Catholic and Protestant Christians in the UK and some other parts of the world.
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Newenden
Newenden is a small village and civil parish in area and population in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
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Orchard
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production.
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Overend, Gurney and Company
Overend, Gurney & Company was a London wholesale discount bank, known as "the bankers' bank", which collapsed in 1866 owing about £11 million, equivalent to £ million in.
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Paddock Wood
Paddock Wood is a large town and civil parish in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells and county of Kent in England, about southwest of Maidstone.
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Paddock Wood railway station
Paddock Wood railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line and Medway Valley Line in south-east England, serving the town of Paddock Wood, Kent.
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Parish councils in England
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the first tier of local government.
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Pavilion Books
Pavilion Books Holdings Ltd is an English publishing company based in London.
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Plate girder bridge
A plate girder bridge is a bridge supported by two or more plate girders.
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Pullman (car or coach)
In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars which were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
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Push–pull train
Push–pull is a configuration for locomotive-hauled trains, allowing them to be driven from either end of the train, whether having a locomotive at each end or not.
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
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Rail fastening system
A rail fastening system is a means of fixing rails to railroad ties (North America) or sleepers (British Isles, Australasia, and Africa).
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railroad tie
A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America) or railway sleeper (Britain, Ireland, South Asia, Australasia, and Africa) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.
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Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) is a national society founded in Cheltenham, UK in 1928 to bring together those interested in rail transport and locomotives.
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Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.
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Reading Street, Ashford
Reading Street is a hamlet approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Tenterden in Kent, England.
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Rediffusion
Rediffusion was a business that distributed radio and TV signals through wired relay networks.
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Richard Maunsell
Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (pronounced "Mansell") (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) held the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern Railway in England until 1937.
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River Teise
The River Teise is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England.
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Rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway
This article is about the rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway.
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Rolvenden
Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
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Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a large affluent town in western Kent, England, around south-east of central London by road and by rail.
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Sandhurst, Kent
The village of Sandhurst is in Kent near the border with East Sussex.
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SECR C class
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) C Class is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive, designed by Harry Wainwright and built between 1900 and 1908.
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SECR D class
The SECR D class is a class of 4-4-0 tender locomotives designed by Harry Wainwright for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
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SECR E class
The SECR E class was a class of 4-4-0 tender locomotives designed by Harry Wainwright for express passenger trains on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
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SECR H class
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) H Class is a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotive originally designed for suburban passenger work, designed by Harry Wainwright in 1904.
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Sectional Appendix
In Great Britain, the Sectional Appendix is a railway document compiled by Network Rail and is the official definition of railway infrastructure, giving a detailed description of all railway lines owned by Network Rail.
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Sentinel Waggon Works
Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.
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SER F class
The SER F class was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives of the South Eastern Railway.
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SER O class
The South Eastern Railway (SER) O Class (some of which were later rebuilt, becoming the O1 Class) was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for freight work, and were the main freight engines of the SER, and later the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) for a number of years.
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Shepperton railway station
Shepperton railway station is a passenger station serving Shepperton, a small town in Surrey, England.
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Siding (rail)
A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line or branch line or spur.
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Signalling control
On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.
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Single-track railway
A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.
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Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst is a small village in the county of Kent in England.
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Slip coach
A slip coach or slip carriage is a British and Irish railway term for passenger rolling stock that is uncoupled from an express train while the train is in motion, then slowed by a guard in the coach using the brakes, bringing it to a stop at the next station.
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South Eastern and Chatham Railway
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Joint Management Committee (SE&CRCJMC),Awdry (1990), page 199 known as the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR), was a working union of two neighbouring rival railways, the South Eastern Railway (SER) and London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR), which operated between London and south-east England.
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South Eastern main line
The South Eastern main line is a major long-distance railway route in South East England, UK, one of the two main routes crossing the county of Kent, going via Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Ashford and Folkestone to Dover.
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South Eastern Railway, UK
The South Eastern Railway (SER) was a railway company in south-eastern England from 1836 until 1922.
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Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
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Southern Region of British Railways
The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.
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St Trinian's School
St Trinian's was a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952.
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Surrey
Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.
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Tenterden
Tenterden is a town with a large conservation area in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
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Tenterden Town railway station
Tenterden Town railway station is a heritage railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden, Kent, England.
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The Railway Magazine
The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.
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The Wombles
The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968.
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Token (railway signalling)
In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track.
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Tonbridge railway station
Tonbridge railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the town of Tonbridge, Kent.
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Wadhurst
Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England.
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Weald
The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
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Wealden cloth industry
Cloth-making was, apart from iron-making, the other large-scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times.
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William Kirtley
William Kirtley (1840 – 7 October 1919) was the Locomotive Superintendent of the London Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) in England from 1874 until the merger to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway at the end of 1898.
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Woodland
Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.
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Woodturning
Woodturning is the craft of using the wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.
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Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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0-4-4T
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles.
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0-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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2-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels.
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4-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.
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Churn Siding, Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway, Cranbrook and paddock wood railway, Hawkhurst Branch, Hawkhurst Branch Line, Pattenden Siding.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkhurst_branch_line
