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Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

Index Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway in Kent is a narrow gauge heritage railway that operates from Sittingbourne to the banks of The Swale. [1]

54 relations: Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., Asbestos, Bagnall fireless locomotives (preserved), Bowater, Bowaters Paper Railway, British narrow-gauge railways, Chattenden and Upnor Railway, Compulsory purchase order, Derek Wyatt, English Heritage, Feral cat, Finnish Government, Government of the United Kingdom, Great Whipsnade Railway, Heritage railway, Heritage Railway Association, Hunslet Engine Company, Industrial railway, ITV Meridian, Ivor the Engine, Kemsley Paper Mill, Kent, Kerr, Stuart and Company, Member of parliament, Metsä Board, Metsä Group, Milton Regis, Mossend, Narrow-gauge railway, National Railway Museum, North Norfolk Railway, Northfleet, Paper mill, Peckett and Sons, Preston-next-Wingham, Railway Heritage Committee, Richard Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester, Ridham Dock, River Swale, Ruston (engine builder), Secretary of State for Transport, Sittingbourne, Standard-gauge railway, Swale, The Swale, The Titfield Thunderbolt, Trollope & Colls, W. G. Bagnall, Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, ..., 0-4-0, 0-4-2, 0-6-2, 2-4-0. Expand index (4 more) »

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years.

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Andrew Barclay Sons & Co.

Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. are a builder of steam and later fireless and diesel locomotives.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.

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Bagnall fireless locomotives (preserved)

Six of the only 14 Bagnall fireless locomotives built by W. G. Bagnall of Stafford, England, have been preserved.

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Bowater

Bowater was a British pulp and paper company, which after post-World War II expansion, through a 30-year period of consolidation which formed the core of a number of worldwide paper products companies.

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Bowaters Paper Railway

The Bowaters Paper Railway was a narrow gauge industrial railway.

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British narrow-gauge railways

There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways.

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Chattenden and Upnor Railway

The Chattenden and Upnor Railway (later known as the Lodge Hill and Upnor Railway) was a narrow gauge railway serving the military barracks and depot at Upnor and associated munitions and training depots.

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Compulsory purchase order

A compulsory purchase order (CPO) is a legal function in the United Kingdom and Ireland that allows certain bodies which need to obtain land or property to do so without the consent of the owner.

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Derek Wyatt

Derek Murray Wyatt FRSA (born 4 December 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sittingbourne and Sheppey from 1997 to 2010, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Feral cat

A feral cat is a cat that lives outdoors and has had little or no human contact.

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Finnish Government

The Finnish government is the executive branch and cabinet of Finland, which directs the politics of Finland and is the main source of legislation proposed to the Parliament.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Great Whipsnade Railway

The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is an English, narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Heritage Railway Association

Heritage Railway Association (HRA) is an umbrella organisation representing the majority of the heritage and tourist railways, railway museums, steam centres and railway preservation groups in the UK and Ireland.

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Hunslet Engine Company

The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England.

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Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.

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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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Ivor the Engine

Ivor the Engine is a British stop motion animated television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company.

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Kemsley Paper Mill

Kemsley Paper Mill is a paper mill located in the village of Kemsley near Sittingbourne in the English county of Kent.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kerr, Stuart and Company

Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Metsä Board

Metsä Board, previously known as M-real Corporation, is a Finnish paper and pulp company.

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Metsä Group

Metsä Group (previously Metsäliitto Group) is a Finnish forest industry group present in about 30 countries.

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Milton Regis

Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England.

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Mossend

Mossend is a town on the A775, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, to the east of its sister town Bellshill, and to the west of the large town of Motherwell.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.

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North Norfolk Railway

The North Norfolk Railway (NNR) – also known as the "Poppy Line" – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the coastal towns of Sheringham and Holt.

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Northfleet

Northfleet is a town in the Gravesham Borough of Kent.

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Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients.

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Peckett and Sons

Peckett and Sons was a locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Locomotive Works on Deep Pit Road between Fishponds and St. George, Bristol, England.

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Preston-next-Wingham

Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England.

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Railway Heritage Committee

The Railway Heritage Committee (RHC) was set up in the 1990s following the Privatisation of British Rail in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.

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Richard Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester

Richard Oliver Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester (born 22 March 1946) is a Labour Party politician.

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Ridham Dock

Ridham Dock is a dock on The Swale in the English county of Kent.

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River Swale

The River Swale is a river in Yorkshire, England and a major tributary of the River Ure, which itself becomes the River Ouse, emptying into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary.

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Ruston (engine builder)

Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840.

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Secretary of State for Transport

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.

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Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town situated in the Swale district of Kent in south east England, from Canterbury and from London.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Swale

Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England and is bounded by Medway to the west, Canterbury to the east, Ashford to the south and Maidstone to the south west.

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The Swale

The Swale is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from Sittingbourne to Whitstable in Kent.

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The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 British comedy film about a group of villagers trying to keep their branch line operating after British Railways decided to close it.

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Trollope & Colls

Trollope & Colls was once one of the United Kingdom's largest construction companies.

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W. G. Bagnall

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Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) (Rheilffordd y Trallwng a Llanfair Caereinion) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales.

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0-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.

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0-4-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement with no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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0-6-2

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 two trailing wheels on one axle.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittingbourne_and_Kemsley_Light_Railway

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